Hi,

Today I have decided to build something that gamifies consistency . A Productivity Pet 🐦‍🔥 –A virtual pet that hatches and grows as you get things done! Each task you complete ‘feeds’ it. It is a catchy pet that feeds on consistency and productivity.

PRODUCTIVITY PET 🐦‍🔥

OUTPUT:

WHAT I PRACTISED 🎉:

• Conditional statements ( if, elif, else)

• Loops ( while)

• Libraries (coloroma)

• Modules (random)

• Basic Arithmetic Logic ( percentage calculation)

WHAT’S NEW 👀:

• Random module ( random. choice)

• List Comprehension

• Format specifier for floating points ( .2f)

EXPLANATION:

STEP 1: SET UP AND LIBRARIES

from colorama import Fore, Style
import random

• colorama = for colourful feature

• random = to randomly pick items

STEP 2: WE IMPORT REQUIRED LIBRARIES (COLORAMA) AND MODULES (RANDOM)

print(Fore.BLUE + "PRODUCTIVITY PET 🐦‍🔥 " + Style.RESET_ALL)
print(Fore.LIGHTCYAN_EX + "Current Progress of Pet :🥚\nComplete your tasks to hatch your pet!" + Style.RESET_ALL)

• Print title and intial pet stage (current progress of the ‘PET’)

STEP 2: TASK INPUT LOGIC ( INSIDE WHILE LOOP):

while True:
    user = input("Did you complete your tasks today? ").lower().strip()
    if user in ["yes", "yeah", "yep"]:
        tasks = [input("Enter task: ") for _ in range(int(input("How many tasks in your list? ")))]
        completed = int(input("How many tasks did you complete? "))

• To let the program to keeps asking you the same question over and over ( so that you can stop when don't want to play ) we initialize while loop, until you decide to stop.

• while True keeps program run until user quits.

• Inside the loop we set a condition (if, elif, else)

• we ask user if they completed tasks. if answer is yes , a block of code is written to handle it. Elif user says no , read at STEP ___

• if the user enters yes :

• We ask them to enter the tasks:

tasks = [input("Enter task: ") for _ in range(int(input("How many tasks in your list? ")))]

• The above line is a LIST COMPREHENSION.

• List comprehension - A list comprehension is a quick way to create a list in one line by looping over items and optionally applying a transformation.

• Basically the above line means:

•   num_tasks = int(input("How many tasks in your list? "))
    tasks = []
    for _ in range(num_tasks):
        task = input("Enter task: ")
        tasks.append(task)
  

• now do you get it? We use 5 lines to ask for input from users and append it to list but in list comprehension we only took a single line to implement the same thing. Don’t woryy the list comprehension might look a bit jammy and hard at first, but with good practice you will understand it.

STEP 3 : CALCULATION OF PERCENTAGE ( PROGRESS):

 completed = int(input("How many tasks did you complete? "))

        percentage = (completed / len(tasks)) * 100
        print(f"Progress: {percentage:.2f}%")

• to calculate the percentage we prompt user to enter how many tasks they completed

• Equation : (completed/ len(tasks)) x 100

• we will print the the answer with addition of .2f

• .2f= .2f is a format specifier that tells Python to display a number as a floating-point with 2 digits after the decimal.

  • Without .2f = Progress: 73.4567%

  • with .2f =Progress: 73.46%

  • see the difference? .2f makes a number round to 2 decimal places for display.

STEP 4: RANDOM MODULE USAGE ( RANDOM PET SELECTION):

  petc = ["🐦", "🐧", "🦇", "🦤", "🦆", "🦅"]
        pets = random.choice(petc)

• a variable petc is taken and to it, a list of different bird emojis is stored

• random.choice() - picks one emoji at random from the list, so each time your pet grows, it might look different.

• random.choice() -picks a random item from a list.

STEP 4: CHECKING THE PERCENTAGE TO CHECK PET PROGRESS:

if percentage < 50:
            print(Fore.YELLOW + "Oops! The pet didn’t hatch. Current stage: 🥚" + Style.RESET_ALL)
        elif 50 <= percentage < 80:
            print(Fore.YELLOW + "CURRENT PROGRESS : 🐣" + Style.RESET_ALL)
        else:
            print(Fore.GREEN + f"Congratulations!\nCURRENT PROGRESS : {pets}" + Style.RESET_ALL)

• If percentage is less than 50 - still egg

• if percentage 50-79= hatched

• if percentage is 80 and above- fully grown pet

STEP 6: IF USER TYPED ‘ NO’:

•    elif user in ["no", "nope", "nah"]:
            print("You need to complete your tasks to hatch your pet")
            cont = input("Do you want to continue? ").lower().strip()
            if cont in ["yes", "yeah", "yep"]:
                continue
            else:
                print("Thank you for using PRODUCTIVITY PET! Goodbye!")
                break
  

• if user said no ( is not productive)

  • Then it asks if you want to keep going - (do you want to continue)

    • If you say yes, the program loops back and asks about your tasks again -continue

    • If you say no, it says goodbye and stops the program - break

EXTRA :

• I have used the ‘random’ module to add variety to the pet’s appearance. This one is optional, so you can choose to use it or not. If you want to use it, don’t forget to

import random

I have provided the GitHub link below. You can also modify the code more creatively and freely to your liking:

https://github.com/log-Null/python-CLI-collections/tree/main/PRODUCTIVITY_PET

• Gamified CLI projects can be fun and creative

• Practicing list comprehensions not only saves time but also enhances code readability and demonstrates Python efficiency. .

• Can be modified: with usage of file handling, adding mini-rewards etc