1. Create Your Own Quiz using_Python KS3 COMPUTING KS3 Computing
A Python Quiz

2. You are going to create a quiz on a topic of your own choice
Introduction
You are going to create a quiz on a topic of your own choice
The topic is your choice as long as it is sensible
Example topics include:
A school subject
General knowledge
A hobby or interest

3. You will use the players name to personalise the quiz.
Quiz Features
Main quiz features
Name
You will use the players name to personalise the quiz.
Minimum
3 Questions
The quiz will have a minimum of 3 Questions. The quiz should be challenging, make it difficult!
Output the
Score
Not only will your quiz tell the player their final score at the end, it will tell them their score after each question.
Save Score to a File
Every time your quiz is taken it will save the name and score of the person into a file.

4. How much progress am I making?
Success Criteria
How much progress am I making?
All
Students
Created a quiz with at least three questions. Quiz runs with minor errors.
P1 - P3
Most Students
Created a quiz containing at least three questions using features such as various question types, elif statements and variable scores. Quiz runs with no errors.
P4 - P6
Some Students
Created a quiz containing at least five questions using features such as various question types, elif statements and variable scores. Saves data to a file. Quiz runs with no errors.
P7 - P9
Your quiz should be unique and creative to get into the upper parts of each band.
Copying and pasting will have a negative effect on your P score.

5. Identifying and Fixing Errors
Troubleshooting
Identifying and Fixing Errors 1
Find the error yourself by following the steps below. 2
Ask the people sat either side of you to help you spot the error. 3
Ask the teacher only if you have tried everything else.
Brackets &
Speech Marks
There should always been an even number (0, 2, 4, 6..) of both of these in each line.
Data Types
Make sure when a number is your answer you are using int, and not using it when you are using a word.
Indents
All lines under if/elif/else statements needed to indented four spaces using the tab key (above caps lock).

6. What Am I looking For? Questions Error-free Independently Features
Assessment Criteria
Questions
How many questions you have produced?
Error-free
Is it error free?
Independently
Have you worked independently?
Features
What features of Python have you used?
Creativity
Have you work used your creativity and imagination?

7. Quiz Title
Decide on an interesting title for your quiz to be displayed as soon as the program is run
Start a new Python file
Pick a title for your quiz
import time
print(“ ”)
print(“-----Mr Lyon’s Computer Game Quiz!-----”)
Run your quiz by pressing F5 and save it as My Python Quiz

8. Ask the quiz player their name
Player Name
Ask the quiz player their name
time.sleep(1)
name = input(“What is your name? ”)
time.sleep(1) pauses the game for one second, you can change this value.

9. Set a starting score and tell the player it
Player Score
Set a starting score and tell the player it
time.sleep(1)
score = 0 #you can chose your own starting score

10. Answer that is a word or sentence
Question Example
Answer that is a word or sentence
WORD
print(“Question 1!”) #change this to the correct question number
time.sleep(1)
answer = input(“What is the name of the arcade game released in 1978 based in space? “) #make sure there is a space after the question mark
if answer.lower() == “space invaders”: #no capital letters
print(“Correct!”)
score = score + 1 #you can change this value
print(name + “, your new score is “ + str(score) + “.”)
else:
print(“Wrong!”)
print(name + “, your score is still “ + str(score) + “.”)

11. Question Example Answer that is a number NUMBER print(“Question 1!”)
time.sleep(1)
answer = int(input(“What year was Pacman released in? “)) #don’t forget second bracket
if answer == 1985: #make sure there are no quotes around a number
print(“Correct!”)
score = score + 1
print(name + “, your new score is “ + str(score) + “.”)
else:
print(“Wrong!”)
score = score – 1 #this is how you minus points
print(name + “, your score is still “ + str(score) + “.”)

12. MULTI-ANSWER (Same score each answer)
Question Example
Question with more than one possible answer
MULTI-ANSWER (Same score each answer)
print(“Question 1!”)
time.sleep(1)
answer = input(“Name one supporting character from the Sonic series? “)
if answer.lower() in [“tails”, “knuckles”]: #no capital letters
print(“Correct!”)
score = score + 1
print(name + “, your new score is “ + str(score) + “.”)
else:
print(“Wrong!”)
print(name + “, your score is still “ + str(score) + “.”)

13. MULTI-ANSWER (Different score each answer)
Question Example
Different answers have different points
MULTI-ANSWER (Different score each answer)
print(“Question 1!”)
time.sleep(1)
answer = input(“Name one supporting character from the Sonic series? “)
if answer.lower() == “tails”: #no capital letters
print(“Correct!”)
score = score + 10
print(name + “, your new score is “ + str(score) + “.”)
elif answer.lower() == “knuckles”:
score = score + 5
else:
print(“Wrong!”)
print(name + “, your score is still “ + str(score) + “.”)

14. Questions You need to have a minimum of 3 questions.
Make sure you have 3 questions before going on to the next slide.

15. Tell the player their final score
Output the Final Score
Tell the player their final score
Insert this code after your last question
#prints the final score to the screen
print(name + “, your final score is: “ + str(score) + “.”)

16. Save the player name and score to a text file
Saving Scores part 1
Save the player name and score to a text file
Insert the code below the title but before the player enters their name
def saveScore(n,s):
#opens the file or creates one if it does not already exist
file = open(“scores.txt”, “a”)
#records the user’s score in the file
file.write(“Name: “ + n + ”, Score: “ + str(s) + ”\n”)
#closes the file
file.close()
return
You need part 2 on the next slide

17. Insert the code below at the very end of your program
Saving Scores part 2
Insert the code below at the very end of your program
#calls the saveScore function and passes the name and score variables
saveScore(name,score)
Next time you run the quiz, your score will be saved in a file (in the same folder as where your Python quiz is saved).
Your quiz is finished!

18. The more questions you have the higher mark you will get.
Keep adding them!
The more questions you have the higher mark you will get.