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# Number-Guessing Game from Hello__World! ISBN-13: 978-1933988498
# Translated from English to Spanish :: Listing 1.2

import random

secret = random.randint(1, 99)
guess = 0
tries = 0

print "Hey, Yo soy el Pirata Pesadilla Roberto, y tengo un secreto!"
print "Es un numero entre el 1 y el 99. Y te dare 6 intentos para que adivines. "

while guess != secret and tries < 6:
    guess = input("Cual es el numero? ")
    if guess < secret:
        print "Muy bajo, cara de ajo! "
    elif guess > secret:
        print "Muy alto, marinerito de agua dukce!!"
    tries = tries + 1
if guess == secret:
    print "Avast! Lo hiciste!  Encontraste my secreto, si lo hiciste!"
else:
    print "No mas adivinanzas  Mas suerte la proxima vez!"
    print "El numero secreto fue", secret

Download EasyGUI if you have not done so already. In the directory where you downloaded the .tar file, follow the terminal commands below:

$ tar -xvf easygui_v0.95.tar
$ sudo python setup.py install

The ‘$’ should not be typed within the terminal window, as this refers to the privilege level. You could also copy “easygui.py” to “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/” directory.  To check if the module is installed within Python type:

Python Code:

>>> import easygui
>>> easygui.msgbox("Hello There!")

or

>>> help()
>>> easygui

control + D

Sea cave are “formed primarily by the wave action of the sea”. This erosion is ongoing against host rocks and when there is a weak zone, caves start to form. One of my ‘wave action’ goals for 2012 is learning to program. Douglas Rushkoff author of Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age candidly writes:

“In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software.  It’s really that simple: Program, or be programmed. Choose the former, and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Choose the latter, and it could be the last real choice you get to make.”

I choose not to just continue learning how to use programs but how to make them as well. Starting with Code Year, which sends interactive programming lessons each week. I have also started to read a few books for learning how to program in Python:

1. Sande, Warren, and Carter Sande. Hello World!: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners. Greenwich, CT: Manning, 2009. Print.
2. Shaw, Zed A. Learn Python The Hard Way | A Beginner Programming Book. Web. 07 Jan. 2012. <http://www.learnpythonthehardway.org/>.
3. Dawson, Mike. Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner. Boston, MA: Course Technology Cengage Learning, 2010. Print.

This blog will bring a complex intermingling of technology genres and ideas that will intrigue us all; from simple reposting to in-depth write-ups.  Welcome to my cavern, or if your just learning to program in python:

Python 2.7 Code:

print “Hello World!”