1SILLY NAME GENERATOR

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The USA Network television channel once ran a detective dramedy called Psych, in which hyper-observant amateur sleuth Shawn Spencer solved cases while pretending to use psychic abilities. A trademark of the show was the way he would introduce his sidekick, Gus, with goofy names made up on the fly, like Galileo Humpkins, Lavender Gooms, and Bad News Marvin Barnes. As Shawn might’ve said, some of these names are so seriously silly they could give you a brain aneurysm, and not the good kind!

Project #1: Generating Pseudonyms

In this warm-up project, you’ll write a simple Python program that generates nutty names by randomly ...

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