AdvPictionary Online Game

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What is it For?

Personal Skill Sharpening

Though the game is more of entertainment based and or fantasy, I took it as a personal level project to learn and sharpen my python skills.

Entertainment

The basics for this game are simple, one player draws something on the screen, and the other players need to guess what it is. The player or team that guesses the most will be the victor at the end of the session

Educational

This educational game allows students to convey the meaning of a term or concept through pictures. Having students draw their representation of a word allows for deeper understanding of the meaning of the word

Roles of member(s)

This being a self-motivated project, unfortunately, I could not team members because during the time of this project (initial) I had some technical obstacles and thus I could go on with the project. As a result I deffered to the next cohort. Getting back, (at the time) all the members from my region had already groouped in their respective groups. And, so, I had to figure out on my own about the project.

That is how ended up being alone in this project. Therefore, I did everything (almost) on my own.

My Story

Back in the yaers when I was joining the university, I remember buying my first lower end laptop 'Asus' . I had no intention at all of making it a coding or gaming machine, because I knew none of those, I only enjoyed watching movies.... just like most comrades ...
My journey of coding began in the late 2018 when I was watching a youtube Video "The Hacker". I got amazed and started to imagine if I could be anyone close or near to the main character... I later came to realize that this passion had a strong force in me. And, so, I started coding in C# using and following youtube tutorials. I almost believed Youtube tutorials in everything pertaining coding...
As time passed by, I got more attached to writing code, and so, I wanted to showcase my little skills at that moment.
II therefore, began learning PHP, I found it so amazing that I developed my first project 'Clinic Management system,' and a logistics company website.
As days passed by, I got curious and wanted to learn Python. After my graduation, a friend told me of ALX, I applied and joined without hesitation, and that is when my journey at ALX began. I have been going through ups and downs at ALX, based on the fact that I have to attend to the tasks and at the same time, find some time for my daily live (without a job)...
My life with Python actually began when I was doing some assignments for freelance, an dgot that opportunity too at ALX. But during all this time, I never had a chance to make or learn about complex big-O and game libraries in python (aprt from C and some small tasks).

When I came across pictionary game, after reading it's documentation, i fall in,ove with the libraries and got curious to learn about them. By so doing, I believe that my skills in python would improve. I did not start it entirely from scratch, but chose this to be a learning project, till I made it to write almost similar but with a little improved codes from the main (source) idea. Another reason is that, I have a friend who is in love with online gaming, so I took this as an opportunity to make themeven more happy that they can play something I have had a hand on.

Most Technical part

In the early stages, I was revolving around having the most user-friendly application. And so, I thought it would be easier to design the html part entirely using the Bootstrap studio for windows. The idea seemed very promising, under the fact that python does support html too.
However, after designing my boards in html, a nightmare arose! I realized i could perfectly map my html board to python. After a several attempts, I decided to draw my board entirely using python class. I realized again that there was absolutely no need to have so many pixels, (though that could lead to more smooth curves) but in the end, it could affect the memory management, since it is an online game, I chose to keep it just that simple but, in the end, make use of all the basic and necessary functions and methods, libraries. Another hell was to manage chatting implementation using socket. I learnt several approaches, which I clearly found to be using a different approach from what I used to do using PHP and Ajax. All of these challenges were solved using workarounds and resources from online and intensive reading more about python game libraries.

What I have Learnt

Throughout the whole project, I have been able to learn: How sockets work in python Time complexity And more on basic programming skills. And, although I used pycharm as my preferred IDE, I still can acknowledge that emacs looks closer to my liking as compared to vim

AdvPictionary Online Game

What is it For?

Personal Skill Sharpening

Entertainment

Educational

Roles of member(s)

Personal Focus

My Story

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