It’s time to play some old-school games! 🎮
Ok, perhaps typing commands in your terminal is not your idea of fun, but we believe that adding The Lord of The Rings to the mix always helps. So, here’s a nerdy and retro option to consider after you finish binge-watching the latest season of Stranger Things.
This (humble) Escape Game was our very first Python project as newbie programmers at Ironhack.
We went from not having coded a line before, to making this work in less than 72 hours – that’s the pace at coding Bootcamps!
Hurry up, hobbit!
The Ring has awoken. A threat grows in the land of Mordor where the shadows loom. Find all maps to reach Mount Doom and destroy the Ring once and for all.
Your journey starts in The Shire. You step out of Bilbo’s house… There’s no going back.
You have 5 minutes to solve the challenge.
- Working with dicts, lists, tuples
- Conditional statements and loops
- Functions
- Installing, importing modules (e.g. time, termcolor)
- … the adrenaline rush you feel when you make your code work! 🏄
With more time, we would have prioritized the following enhancements:
- New mini-games.
- Repurpose challenges and add coding quizzes to review the content of our classes (introduce gamification in the context of the bootcamp).
- Expand scope with additional maps, characters and elements to interact with.
- Introduce random elements, so the experience is different every time you play.
👉 See full project ppt on SpeakerDeck
Kudos to our amazing TA Gladys Mawarni for being our Gandalf and guiding us through the first steps of our coding journey! 🧙♀️