Question

programming help

Answer 1

@ultrilliam im getting a syntax error on this line do you know whats wrong ?

Answer 2

@vocaloid

Answer 3

Missing a plus sign after the first string in line 20

Answer 4

do you know where i can add a villian name to my code?

Answer 5

like i want the villian name: "Doctor Wicked" to show up on the output before the comma

Answer 6

I've just learned about classes recently, but I think it would be defined inside the Superhero class?

Answer 7

i have no idea why its saying this

Answer 8

heres all the info:

Answer 9

and this is my story:

I want to tell you about my superhero.
His name is firefly and his super power is throwing fireballs and shooting lasers.
As he goes against Doctor Wicked, he shouts out his motto
Fire will always win! Then quickly catches up to Doctor Wicked, so he can finish him off!
The villain is defeated when he is lit by burning fire and starts to faint!
Firefly has now earned an additional 200 strength because of his courageous actions
He now has a total of 500 strength and has saved his city from harm.

Answer 10

i really want to know if i have written everything correctly so far

Answer 11

i found this vid online, but its too loud i cant even understand it https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q8Bb3f2FzcF21QKL5UxClp49INIengiK/view

Answer 12

I think the code looks good so far. Make sure you include all the parameters you need when calling the superhero method so that everything gets defined like you want it to be

Answer 13

on here

Answer 14

also would i have to use these in my code?

Answer 15

Sounds like a plan. It seems like you meet the requirements. How many attributes, or parameters does your superhero method have, again?

Answer 16

i did strength, villain, and motto so thats three attributes

Answer 17

did i already add a method in the code?

Answer 18

but i cant get my villain name on the output for some reason

Answer 19

its saying this

Answer 20

am i doing something wrong?

Answer 21

Yeah it looks like you have a method for defining the hero and a method for adding strength so with one more method you’d fulfill the rewuirements

Answer 22

Since you included the attribute for villain in the definition method, you also need to include the attribute when you define the hero by calling the method. In the definition of the method, the villain variable can be set to the empty string.
Then you’d define your hero as

firehero = superhero(“Firefly”, 0, “Firefly will always win!”, “Doctor Wicked”)

Answer 23

No, attributes are the same as parameters. That’s information you feed into a method to determine how it behaves. Like name is an attribute or parameter of the Superhero definition method, and you can set it as “Firefly” or any other name when you call the method

Answer 24

i added it but whats wrong w 21 now?

Answer 25

You define firehero with a villain attribute on line 18, but fireHero (with a capital H) on line 17 has no such attribute. So, when you try to find the villain attribute of fireHero on line 21 it isn’t recognized

Answer 26

i fixed it

Answer 27

This is actually a technique called overloading, which is when you have two or more methods in the same class with the same name but different attributes; the behavior of the method depends on which attributes you pass in that case

For this exercise, we probably don’t need to use overloading, but I thought it would be interesting to share that information

Answer 28

That’s interesting. Maybe if you comment out line 17 and leave line 18?

Could be that defining fireHero without villain first gets it stuck to not include that attribute?

Answer 29

do i put anything for villain up there?

Answer 30

nah it just changed to line 20 now lol

Answer 31

You wouldn’t, since you set the value of villain when you call the method to define the superhero

Answer 32

all these other lines from the story are just printing right? i dont think that would take long:

I want to tell you about my superhero.
His name is firefly and his super power is throwing fireballs and shooting lasers.
As he goes against Doctor Wicked, he shouts out his motto
Fire will always win! Then quickly catches up to Doctor Wicked, so he can finish him off!
The villain is defeated when he is lit by burning fire and starts to faint!
Firefly has now earned an additional 200 strength because of his courageous actions
He now has a total of 500 strength and has saved his city from harm.

Answer 33

like the ones without methods or anything

Answer 34

Yeah I think the only other place you would need to call methods would be for adding strength points. Unless you needed to include another method

I’m still not sure about the bug you’re seeing. It looks like you defined the villain attribute and included it properly…

Could I see your method definition again?

Answer 35

like the pictures?

Answer 36

right?

Answer 37

@smokeybrown i found the issue

Answer 38

i misspelled the word villain here bruh

Answer 39

my stupidity

Answer 40

output perfect now, whats next

Answer 41

what do i do here?

Answer 42

Nice catch!

To call the method for adding points like you defined, you could call the addStrengthPts method with the “self” attribute as the variable referring to your hero and the “points” attribute as the number of points you want to add

Answer 43

Like

addedPoints=200
addStrengthPts(fireHero, addedPoints)

And then you can print your message saying how many points the hero gained and what their new number of points is

Answer 44

hold on lemme do it

Answer 45

sorry for the wait, just finished eating

Answer 46

No worries, take your time :)

Answer 47

would i add this

"addedPoints=200
addStrengthPts(fireHero, addedPoints)"

right after this code in the image?

Answer 48

or do i write it in the def main

Answer 49

after the def main*

Answer 50

Inside the def main, yeah. Since you're not adding any code to the method, you're just calling it in the main method

Answer 51

ok

Answer 52

so ill just put it anywhere in the main

Answer 53

Yup, that should work fine, as long as it's before anything that depends on the new value of fireHero.strengthPts.

Answer 54

am i doing something wrong with capitalizations?

Answer 55

Ah, maybe you need to call the method from the Superhero class, like
Superhero.addStrengthPts(fireHero, addedPoints)

Answer 56

here right?

Answer 57

its still saying it tho

Answer 58

Sorry, I meant in the main method you would call the addStrengthPts method from the Superhero class. You don't need to change the methods you already wrote, just make sure to call Superhero.addStrengthPts(...) instead of just addStrengthPts so the program knows where to look for that method (in the Superhero class)

Answer 59

like this right?

Answer 60

i put that in the main

Answer 61

dk what this means tho

Answer 62

Oh, you called fireHero as an attribute of the addStrengthPts method on line 17 before you define fireHero on line 22.
If you want to reference a variable, it has to be after that variable is defined. That also applies to the addedPoints attribute; you define that variable on line 19.

Change the order so Superhero.addStrengthPts... appears later, and you can also get rid of line 20, addStrengthPts... since we're not calling the method that way

Answer 63

ok so i added after now

Answer 64

i put it after the line tho didnt i?

Answer 65

addedPoints still needs to be defined before the method which calls it as an attribute.
If you put addedPoints before Superhero.addStrengthPts(...) the error message shouldn't appear.
Alternatively, you can forget about the addedPoints variable and just enter the number of points as an attribute directly
Superhero.addStrengthPts(fireHero, 200)
but using the variable might be useful if you want to reference it later, like in your printed message

Answer 66

well i think i did everything they asked right?

Answer 67

or am i missing a method or attribute?

Answer 68

class Superhero:

# Superhero class represents the facts related to a superhero.
def __init__(self, name = "", strengthPts = 0, motto = " ", villain = " "):
# Create a new Superhero with a name and other attributes
self.name = name
self.strengthPts = strengthPts
self.motto = motto
self.villain = villain

def addStrengthPts(self, points):
# Adds points to the superhero's strength.
self.strengthPts = self.strengthPts + points

def main():


fireHero = Superhero(“Firefly”, 0, “Firefly will always win!”, “Doctor Wicked”)
print("I want to tell you about my superhero!")
print(fireHero.name + "'s motto is " + fireHero.motto)
print("As " + fireHero.name + " goes against " + fireHero.villain + ", he shouts out his motto ")

addedPoints=200
Superhero.addStrengthPts(fireHero, addedPoints)


main()

Answer 69

my full code

Answer 70

Looks good!

As far as I understand the assignment, it looks like you fulfilled the requirements

Answer 71

it also said these actions might be used

Answer 72

but i didnt need to use these in the code right?

Answer 73

im sure i did this so yh i think thats all the requirements

Answer 74

ill just add the print statements now

Answer 75

its not really a big issue but there is no space appearing on the output between "win!" and "Then"

Answer 76

"Firefly has now earned an additional 200 strength because of his courageous actions" for this line, dont i have to write it differently, or do i just put it in a print statement?

Answer 77

Alright nice!

Answer 78

i put this code but that reference thing showed up again

Answer 79

Line 24 also references the addedPoints variable, so it needs to be defined before then

Answer 80

oh myb i got it

Answer 81

perfect

Answer 82

this was a hard one man

Answer 83

but thanks so much for working on these w me bro, i honestly couldnt have done anythign without your help

Answer 84

i have like 2 left but are you going to stay online rn?

Answer 85

im going to answer some questions real fast

Answer 86

Sounds good. I probably can't stay online for now, but I'll try to take a look tomorrow if you still need help!