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[Deadmeat1471]

It is, but i'm a history degree student and am doing programming as a little hobby project. I'm way out of my league 

[Virex]

Ok ive got my head around lists again (fairly easy). Next ill impliment the roster of Mercury 7 Astronauts and Vostok Cosmonauts!

One of the awesome things about python is that it has some very good list-related functions. Say you got a list of all mercury missions and you want to get a list with a detail of each mission (for example, the mission date). You could make a function that takes a mission and returns the date that mission took place, called for example getMissionDate(mission).
Then you can use map(getMissionDate, missionList) et presto, you've got a list with all the dates in which the missions in the list took place.

[Deadmeat1471]

Thanks! looking into functions is my next objective, i've just beefed out the menu a bit more, added in practicing and the original Mercury/Vostok crew rosters and their starting skill levels, these need modifying greatly. I imported them directly from BARIS and the system i'm using uses higher numbers. I'll probably just double everyones base skills.
Next I will take a long look at functions and try to use them (will be testing the things people suggested).

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import random
import time


start = ''

print 'hello what is your name?'
name = raw_input()
time.sleep(1)
print 'your name is ' + name

while start > 5:
    time.sleep(2)
    print 'would you like to be a Cosmonaut or Astronaut?'
    nationchoice = raw_input()

    if nationchoice == 'Cosmonaut':
        start = 1
    elif nationchoice == 'Astronaut':
        start = 1

    else:
        start = 10
        print 'Choose Cosmonaut or Astronaut please.'
       
cosmonautmoney = 75
astronautmoney = 100

cosmonautstageone = 'Vostok'
astronautstageone = 'Mercury'


##BEGINNING OF ROSTERS##

##mercury 7##
Shirra = [2, 1 , 1, 1, 1, 100]
Glenn = [1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 100]
Grissom = [3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 100]
Cooper = [2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 100]
Shepard = [1, 1 ,1 ,1 ,2 , 100]
Slayton = [4, 1, 1, 0, 1, 100]
Carpenter = [1, 0, 1, 0, 2, 100]

Astronauts = [Shirra, Glenn, Grissom, Cooper, Shepard, Slayton, Carpenter] + [name]

##Vostok crew##
Gagarin = []
Titov = []
Nikolayev = []
Popovich = []
Bykovsky = []
Tereshkova = []

Cosmonauts = [Gagarin, Titov, Nikolayev, Popovich, Bykovsky, Tereshkova]

##END OF ROSTERS##

intro = 1
c = ''
l = ''
e = ''
d = ''
en = ''
m = ''

if nationchoice == 'Cosmonaut':
    campaign = 1
    date = 1957
   
if nationchoice == 'Astronaut':
    campaign = 2
    date = 1957

while intro == 1:
    print 'you are a ' + nationchoice + '.'
    time.sleep(2)
    print 'The date is ' + str(date)
    time.sleep(2)
    print 'Your goal is to have a successful career in the space program, good luck!'
    time.sleep(2)
   
##generation##
    c = random.randint(0, 10)
    l = random.randint(0, 5)
    e = random.randint(0, 5)
    d = random.randint(0, 5)
    en = random.randint(0, 5)
    m = random.randint(0, 100)

    vis = 5

    intro = 0
   
##menu##

choice = '0'
alive = 1
while alive == 1:
    while choice != 5:
        print 'What would you like to do?\n'
        time.sleep(2)
        print 'You can:\n1.REST\n2.PRACTICE\n3.SOCIALISE\n4.VIEW SKILLS\n10.NEXT TURN'
        time.sleep(1)
        print 'Enter your choice.'
        choice = raw_input()
##viewskills##
        if choice == str(4):
            print 'Your skills are\n'
            print 'Cap: ' + str(c)
            print 'LEM: ' + str(l)
            print 'EVA: ' + str(e)
            print 'Doc: ' + str(d)
            print 'End: ' + str(en)
            print 'Mor: ' + str(m)
            raw_input('Press ENTER to close')
##rest##
        if choice == str(1):
            increase = random.randint(0, 5)
            print 'moral increased by ' + str(increase) + ' to ' + str(m)
            time.sleep(2)
            choice = 5

##Socialise##
        if choice == str(3):
            increase = random.randint (0, 5)
            print 'You go to a local party, increasing your visibility to the elite by ' + str(increase) + ' making it ' + str(vis)
            time.sleep(2)
            choice = 5

##practice##
        if choice == str(2):
            choice = '5'
            pchoice = ''
            while pchoice != 'o':
                print 'What would you like to practice?'
                print '[C]apsule\n[L]EM\n[E]VA\n[D]ocking\nE[n]durance\nN[o]ne'
                pchoice = raw_input()
                if pchoice == 'c':
                    c = c + random.randint(0, 5)
                    print 'your practice increased your Capsule skill to ' + str(c)
                    pchoice = 'o'
                    choice = 5
                if pchoice == 'l':
                    l = l + random.randint(0, 5)
                    print 'your practice increased your LEM skill to ' + str(l)
                    pchoice = 'o'
                    choice = 5           
                if pchoice == 'e':
                    e = e + random.randint(0, 5)
                    print 'your practice increased your EVA skill to ' + str(e)
                    pchoice = 'o'
                    choice = 5
                if pchoice == 'd':
                    d = d + random.randint(0, 5)
                    print 'your practice increased your Docking skill to ' + str(d)
                    pchoice = 'o'
                    choice = 5
                if pchoice == 'n':
                    n = c + random.randint(0, 5)
                    print 'your practice increased your Endurance skill to ' + str(n)
                    pchoice = 'o'
                    choice = 5
                time.sleep(1)
                print 'Your skills are\n'
                print 'Cap: ' + str(c)
                print 'LEM: ' + str(l)
                print 'EVA: ' + str(e)
                print 'Doc: ' + str(d)
                print 'End: ' + str(en)
                print 'Mor: ' + str(m)
                raw_input('Press ENTER to close')


               
##working - next to do - end turn calc/competition astronauts + space program progression##
##revise skill increase to include the incriment in which it increased by##
   
   
   

[Deadmeat1471]

Ok ive got my head around lists again (fairly easy). Next ill impliment the roster of Mercury 7 Astronauts and Vostok Cosmonauts!

One of the awesome things about python is that it has some very good list-related functions. Say you got a list of all mercury missions and you want to get a list with a detail of each mission (for example, the mission date). You could make a function that takes a mission and returns the date that mission took place, called for example getMissionDate(mission).
Then you can use map(getMissionDate, missionList) et presto, you've got a list with all the dates in which the missions in the list took place.

Could you elaborate slightly on this, it looks really useful!


How would I put that into the mission function?

I know this isnt correct... hmm just attempting to recapping functions.

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def getMissionDate(mission):
    print mission + str(MissionDate)


getMissionDate(Sputnik4)

* I feel like im getting closer to what I need... functions always made my brain hurt. I'm sure once I crack it and understand it will be incredibly easy, but until then, brain hurt.

[Deadmeat1471]

Ahhah!

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Sputnik4date = 1960
Sputnik5date = 1961



def getMissionDate(mission):
    print 'Mission date was: ' + str(mission)


getMissionDate(Sputnik4date)
getMissionDate(Sputnik5date)
Becomes:

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Mission date was: 1960
Mission date was: 1961
Success. Somewhat. Ill have to think more on how to use this further.

[Virex]

A function is like a Recipe. In short it contains a description of what the program has to do when you call the function. Let's have a look at the anatomy of a function:

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def functionName(paramter1, parameter2)   #Creates a function with the name functionName, that takes 2 arguments.
    paramter3 = parameter1 + parameter2   #Binds a new variable called parameter3 to the value of paramter1 + parameter2
    return parameter3                     #When the function hits a return statement it'll stop and return the value


sum = functionName(1, 2)                  #Calls functionName. The program will jump to the code above, bind parameter1 to 1 and parameter2 to 2.
                                          #then it'll execute the code in the function. The function returns 3, so sum is set to 3.
As you see, a function can only do something, in itself it will not store anything. This means that for what you want to do, you'll have to use something that can store information for you. The easiest way to think about your mission is as an object. An object, in its simpelest form is a description of something (abstract or tangible) that exists within your "code world". Say in your game you've got to deal with chairs for some reason. A chair has an amount of legs, a height, a color and a material it's made of. We could of course define a list as a chair, store the amount of legs in the first cell, the height in the second et cetera. But that'll get confuzing fast because we constantly need to make the leap: first cell is legs, second is height.
To combat that problem, python lets you make objects from a class description. A class is an abstract definition of your object. For example, a chair would look like this:

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class chair
    def __init__(self, legs, height, color, material)
        self.legs = legs
        self.height = height
        self.color = color
        self.material = material
This defines an abstract definition for your class. The __init__ function always gets called when you make a new instance of the class (it's what many languages refer to as the constructor). In this case the __init__ function takes 4 arguments (ignore self for the moment) and binds some properties of the chair class to the 4 supplied values.
You can now make a new chair as following:

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chair1 = chair(4, 80, "green", "wood")
Which will create a green, 4 legged chair made from wood, with a height of 80 arbitrary-chair-height-units. We can then get some information about the class with the following code:

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chair1Height= chair1.height
which will bind chair1Height to the height of chair 1 (currently 80 achu's)


I hope this clears some stuff up?

[Deadmeat1471]

Yeah that helps alot! I've got some experimenting to do 

[Deadmeat1471]

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class mission:
    def __init__(program, number, date):
        self.program = program
        self.number = number
        self.date = date

missionsputnik4 = mission('Sputnik', 4, 1960)
missionsputnik5 = mission('Sputnik', 5, 1961)

missionsputnik4date = missionsputnik4.date

print missionsputnik4date
This has an error cant figure it out.

It says:

missionsputnik4 = mission('Sputnik', 4, 1960)
TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 3 arguments (4 given)

But it's clearly 3 not 4. Anyone know what the problem is?

[Darvi]

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class mission:
    def __init__(program, number, date):
        self.program = program
        self.number = number
        self.date = date

missionsputnik4 = mission('Sputnik', 4, 1960)
missionsputnik5 = mission('Sputnik', 5, 1961)

missionsputnik4date = missionsputnik4.date

print missionsputnik4date
This has an error cant figure it out.

It says:

missionsputnik4 = mission('Sputnik', 4, 1960)
TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 3 arguments (4 given)

But it's clearly 3 not 4. Anyone know what the problem is?

No no, it should be

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print missionsputnik4.date
with a period.

[Deadmeat1471]

oh i forgot self, im retarded.

[Virex]

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class mission:
    def __init__(program, number, date):
        self.program = program
        self.number = number
        self.date = date

missionsputnik4 = mission('Sputnik', 4, 1960)
missionsputnik5 = mission('Sputnik', 5, 1961)

missionsputnik4date = missionsputnik4.date

print missionsputnik4date
This has an error cant figure it out.

It says:

missionsputnik4 = mission('Sputnik', 4, 1960)
TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 3 arguments (4 given)

But it's clearly 3 not 4. Anyone know what the problem is?

__Init__'s first argument should be self. It won't work if you omit it. The self argument holds the object you've just created so the program can actually refer to the different parts of the object. It's passed implicitly, so you don't have to care about it when creating a new object instance, but it needs to be there when defining the constructor of a class.

[Deadmeat1471]

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class mission:
    def __init__(self, program, number, date):
        self.program = program
        self.number = number
        self.date = date

missionsputnik4 = mission('Sputnik', 4, 1960)
missionsputnik5 = mission('Sputnik', 5, 1961)

s4date = missionsputnik4.date

print s4date
Works fine now, think I confused Darvi with my retarded variable names

[Darvi]

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class mission:
    def __init__(self, program, number, date):
        self.program = program
        self.number = number
        self.date = date

missionsputnik4 = mission('Sputnik', 4, 1960)
missionsputnik5 = mission('Sputnik', 5, 1961)

s4date = missionsputnik4.date

print s4date
Works fine now, think I confused Darvi with my retarded variable names

Nope, confusion is the status quo in my case.

[Deadmeat1471]

Do you think it might be a good idea to put in the class EVERYTHING to do with the mission, for example it seems a nice place to put all the mission info like -

    def __init__(self, program, number, date, OIB, TLI, MCCB, LOIB)

to which the answer to the last four would be yes or no (skipping or running IF statements in mission resolution phase).

something like

while missionsputnik4.OIB = true:
        print 'performing Orbital Insertion burn'
        if random.randint(0, 100) > rocketsafety + c #capsule skill#
               print 'step failure, orbital insertion burn fails'
               if random.randint(0, 100) > 50:
                    print 'catastrophic failure'
                    if random.randint(0, 100) > 50:
                        print 'you are killed!'   
                        alive = 0
                    else: you are wounded
               else:
                    print ''Orbital insertion burn successful



Acronyms are Orbital Insertion Burn, Trans-Lunar Injection, Mid Course Correction Burn, Lunar Orbital Insertion Burn if anyones wondering.

[Darvi]

You mean true and false right?

So it would be

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while missionsputnik4.OIB == true:
And yeah, don't see there being a problem as long as every mission has those same variables.