🐍 Python Terminal Projects & DSA Practice

A growing collection of beginner-friendly Python terminal projects + some of my Python DSA practice.
Each project helped me learn and apply Python fundamentals — if/else, loops, functions, user input, and logic building.

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📁 Projects Included

1️⃣ 🔐 Password Generator

Generates secure, randomized passwords based on:

• Letters
• Symbols
• Numbers

Learned:

• random.choice() & random.shuffle()
• List manipulation
• String joining & formatting

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2️⃣ 🍕 Python Pizzeria

Simple pizza billing system:

• Size (S, M, L)
• Add-ons: pepperoni, extra cheese

Learned:

• if / elif / else branching
• Nesting logic for cost computation
• User input handling

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3️⃣ ✊ Rock Paper Scissors

Terminal-based game with:

• User input
• Computer-generated moves
• ASCII art display

Learned:

• random.randint()
• Game condition logic
• Input validation

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4️⃣ 🏝️ Treasure Hunt

Text adventure where choices affect the outcome.

Learned:

• Nested conditionals
• .lower() for case-insensitive input

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5️⃣ 💀 Hangman

Classic hangman with lives & ASCII visuals.

Learned:

• while game loops
• Tracking guesses & lives
• External file imports (hangman_art.py, hangman_words.py)

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6️⃣ 🏛️ Caesar Cipher

Encrypt/decrypt messages by shifting letters.

Learned:

• ord() / chr() with wrap-around logic
• Reusable encode/decode functions

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7️⃣ 🧾 Secret Bidding System

Blind auction with anonymous bids.

Learned:

• Dictionaries for name–bid pairs
• Highest bid detection
• Loop until condition met

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8️⃣ ❤️ Love Calculator

Fun score based on common letters in two names.

Learned:

• .count() for letters
• String-to-number conversion
• Basic terminal interaction

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📚 Skills Used Across Projects

💡 Core Python

• Variables & data types (int, str, bool, list)
• String formatting: f-strings, .join()
• User input & type conversion

🔁 Control Flow

• if, elif, else branching
• Nested conditionals
• and, or, not
• Loops: for, while

🔀 Randomization

• random.choice()
• random.shuffle()
• random.randint()

🧩 Data Structures

• List operations: .append(), slicing, indexing
• Dictionaries (key: value)
• Membership checks

🎮 Game Logic & I/O

• ASCII art with multi-line strings
• Input validation
• Game state management

📦 Modularity

• Multiple Python files
• Importing modules & data

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▶️ How to Run

Run each .py file individually:

$ python project_name.py

Requires Python 3.

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🔧 Coming Soon

🐍 Snake Game

🧠 Number Guessing Game

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👤 Author

Ameya Kulkarni 💻 GitHub | 📫 LinkedIn | 🎯 Codolio

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📜 License: MIT — free to use, modify, and share.

⭐ If you like this repo, drop a star and follow along as I keep updating!

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