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Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python , 4th Edition
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Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python , 4th Edition

by Al Sweigart
December 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
9h 5m
English
No Starch Press
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7DESIGNING HANGMAN WITH FLOWCHARTS

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In this chapter, you’ll design a Hangman game. This game is more complicated than our previous games but also more fun. Because the game is advanced, we’ll first carefully plan it out by creating a flowchart in this chapter. In Chapter 8, we’ll actually write the code for Hangman.

How to Play Hangman

Hangman is a game for two people in which one player thinks of a word and then draws a blank line on the page for each letter in the word. The second player then tries to guess letters that might be in the word.

If the second player ...

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