COMP 141: Project 8

Angry Birds with Graphics

You may work with a partner for this project. If you choose to do so, only turn in one copy of the project with both of your names in the comments at the beginning of the code.

If Angry Birds doesn't particularly interest you, you may do one of the challenge problems at the end of this description, or propose a different project to me of comparable difficulty. You must get my approval before starting work on it.

For this project, you will write an Angry Birds program in two parts. The first part is similar to the lab we did in class to write a text-based Angry Birds program. The second part is to add graphics. Get Part A working before you begin Part B.

Part A

Your program should do the following (very similar to the in-class lab):

How to do it:

Read in your angry birds file and make a list containing the energy levels (points) for all the pigs. For instance, if your angry birds starting file contains the lines regular, regular, helmet, moustache, regular, then you'd make a list containing [1, 1, 2, 3, 1]. (The point of reading from a file is so you can have different files with different levels of difficulty.)

Then enter a loop that lets the user choose a bird type and launch it. Some bird types will need to ask the user where they want to launch the bird. Print the list of pig energies after each launch.

Bird types you must include:

Part B

After Part A works completely, you will add graphics to your program as follows:

Hints

Possible enhancements

What to turn in

Through Moodle, turn in your code as a file called angrybirds_yourLastName_yourFirstName.py.

Alternate challenge programs

Here are some alternate games with graphics you could create. These are all significantly more difficult as they involve a 2-d grid. You should feel very comfortable with your programming skills in order to attempt these.