Create a Mad Lib

To put all of your knowledge together, we're going to create a Mad Lib. 0:00 A Mad Lib is a fun activity where you ask someone for 0:05 nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc, and then use them in a silly paragraph. 0:08 We will be working in a new workspace. 0:17 So go ahead and 0:19 launch the latest workspace with this video if you haven't already. 0:21 Click on the madlib.py file to open it, 0:26 if it isn't open already, and let's look at our Mad Lib. 0:29 These are called comments. 0:35 They don't run when the file is run in the console, they're just information for us. 0:37 Each bracket is where we'll need to ask the user for something, an adjective, and 0:43 then print it out in the sentence. 0:48 Let's create all of the variables and inputs first. 0:50 I'm going to use the name of the item and 0:55 then a number to represent its place in the paragraph. 0:57 For instance, the first one will be called adjective1. 1:01 Then plural_noun2, 1:08 and so on and so forth. 1:12 adjective1 = 1:17 input('Adjective: '). 1:21 plural_noun = input 1:28 ('Plural Noun: '). 1:33 verb3 = input 1:39 ('Verb: '). 1:44 verb4 = input ('Verb: '). 1:50 adjective5 = input 1:58 ('Adjective: '). 2:02 Make sure I got them all. 2:07 Adjective, plural noun, verb, verb, adjective. 2:15 Next is family member. 2:19 Family_member6 = input ('Family Member: '). 2:28 Need another verb7 = 2:37 input('Verb: '). 2:42 Then we need a plural_noun8 2:46 = input ('Plural Noun: '). 2:52 And finally, we need one more 2:59 adjective, adjective9 = 3:04 input('Adjective: '). 3:09 Awesome. 3:18 We've got all of our inputs written. 3:21 Let's save and run the file. 3:23 This way we can make sure we don't have any spelling errors. 3:30 Great, next we need to use the input to print out our Mad Lib. 3:55 Let's print out each sentence line by line, 4:01 so we can make sure to use the right variable. 4:06 Create a little bit of space, print and 4:10 we know we're gonna have to use our string formatting, so f(' '). 4:14 And we can copy and paste our first sentence here, 4:20 Ctrl + C or Command + C, and then Ctrl or 4:25 Command + V to paste it in here. 4:29 Then we turn our square brackets into 4:33 curly brackets and add our number, 1. 4:38 And let's repeat that for 4:46 all of our sentences print(f' ''), 4:50 copy sentence two, copy, paste, 4:55 and don't forget we'll need 5:00 an underscore here, this will be 2. 5:04 And we'll need to do the same thing with this verb. 5:11 It could be 3 and 5:15 then print(f' '). 5:18 Let's get our next sentence. 5:24 Change these to curly brackets. 5:35 We're on 4, So 5:39 adjective is 5, curly bracket. 5:45 Repeat again, print(f' '), 5:50 grab our second to last sentence, 5:55 paste, curly bracket, underscore, 6:00 the number 6, curly bracket, 6:07 curly bracket, 7, curly bracket, 6:12 curly bracket, underscore, 8 and 6:18 curly bracket and we have one more. 6:24 Print(f' ') 6:33 Copy and paste, 6:39 curly, 9, curly and 6:43 save, run the file. 6:49 Enter whatever you want. 7:04 Oops, says our family_member6 7:24 is not defined. 7:31 Let's see why. 7:36 Oops, l spelled it wrong. 7:38 l have family memeber. 7:38 So remove that, and then make sure it's also spelled correctly down here, 7:41 family_member6, okay. 7:46 Save. 7:48 Let's run 7:56 that again. 8:02 And there's your Mad Lib. 8:17 Nice work, you have a working Mad Lib program, pat yourself on the back. 8:19 Feel free to grab a friend, roommate or significant other and 8:25 have them input the adjectives and nouns and run their own Mad Lib. 8:29 As a challenge, I've placed another Mad Lib and the second file here. 8:35 Go ahead and try creating this Mad Lib program on your own. 8:41 Pause me and I'll see you back here in a bit. 8:46 All right, let me walk you through what I did. 8:50 First, I created all of the variables and inputs like this one. 8:53 Then I created the print statements with string formatting using curly brackets and 9:02 the variable names to input our user's information. 9:08 Save and run the file. 9:12 Make sure 9:21 to put 9:29 madlib2. 9:34 I like to have cats, plants, 9:53 and dogs on my desk at all times. 9:58 This helps me stay focused when I eat. 10:03 I also keep my bug close to keep cars from bothering me while I catch. 10:06 When I'm running, I use the Doug Technique. 10:11 It's where you spend 30 minutes gaming and then 2 minutes sleeping. 10:14 This makes me a wonderful worker. 10:18 I wish I could spend 30 minutes gaming and 10:20 then 2 minutes sleeping to complete my work every day. 10:22 Take some time and look at all of the code you've written so far. 10:26 You are on your way to becoming a great Pythonista. 10:36 So far, you've learned how to create a variable that holds a string, 10:42 how to print out strings and variables to the console, how to run a file, 10:47 how to ask for input and save the result in a variable and how to format strings. 10:53 That's a ton of knowledge already. 11:01 You're amazing. 11:03

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