Description
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Assignment 3 – Pig Elvish and Largest Number
Goals
• For loops
• While loops
• String processing and manipulation
Part 1 – Igpén Lvísheá (Pig Elvish)
• Background
o Pig Elvish is a gibberish (made-up) language similar to Pig Latin, but
designed to sound like the Elvish language spoken by the Elves in Lord of the
Rings. (example of Elvish)
o To “translate” an English word into Pig Elvish, follow these rules (adapted
from this site):
1. Take the first letter of the word and move it to the end of the word
2. If the word is four letters or more, append a random vowel to the end
of the word (aeiou)
3. If the word is three letters or fewer, append “en” to the end of the
word
4. Change all k’s to c’s
5. If there is an e at the end of the word, replace it with ë (e with an
umlaut)
6. Handle capital letters properly:
• If the first letter of the English word is capitalized, make it
lower case when you append it to the end
• Then capitalize the new first letter of the Pig Elvish word
o Tolkien Olcienti
o Trojan Rojantu
o Examples:
• a aen
• while hilewa
• python ythonpë
• Quick Uiccqi
o Extra credit: Complete these two optional steps
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7. Randomly add accents (áéíóú) some vowels
§ In order to randomly add accents to vowels in a word, you can
use the random.choice() function (see hint below)
§ Examples:
• a aén
• while hilewá
• python ythónpë
• quick uíccqí
8. Reverse the program and create a Pig Elvish to English translator
following the same general structure.
§ Question (include answer in your comments): Is this
translation complete reversible? That is, can you be guaranteed
to be back the original word given only the translated word?
Explain
• Requirements
o Create a program to translate a single word at a time from English into Pig
Elvish
§ Important: You are only required to implement steps 1-6 above
o Using a while loop, first ask the user enter a word in English
o “Translate” the user’s word into Elvish
o Display the word in Elvish
o Ask the user if they want to continue
§ If yes, ask them for another word to translate
§ If no, print a goodbye message in Elvish
o Hint #1: Strings have useful methods called isupper()
§ someString.isupper() checks whether all the letters in the string are
uppercase and returns a Boolean: True if the string is all uppercase,
or False otherwise.
§ For example,
# consider that letter is a string
if letter.isupper() == True:
# letter is uppercase
else:
# letter is lowercase
o Hint #2: Stings have another useful method called capitalize()
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§ anotherString.capitalize() returns a copy of the string with only the
first letter capitalized
§ For example,
# consider that letter is a string
capitalLetter = letter.capitalize()
o Hint #3 for Extra Credit: If you have a sequence (e.g. a string) and you want
to randomly select one element from the sequence, you can use the
random.choice() function
§ For example,
import random
message = “hello world”
letter = random.choice(message)
# letter now holds a random character from message
Sample Output for Part 1
Elcómewó óten heten Igpén Lvísheá ránslátórtë!
(Welcome to the Pig Elvish translator!)
Please enter a word you would like to translate: gandalf
‘gandalf’ in elvish is: andalfgi
Would you like to translate another word? (y/n): y
Please enter a word you would like to translate: orc
‘orc’ in elvish is: rcoen
Would you like to translate another word? (y/n): n
Oodbyega! Aveha aen icenë ayden!
(Goodbye! Have a nice day!)
Part 2 – Largest Number
• Requirements
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o Using a while loops, find the largest number that a user enters.
o Ask the user to input an integer greater than or equal to 0 or -1 to quit.
Input an integer greater than or equal to 0 or -1 to quit:
o When the user enters -1, print out the largest number found.
o After finding the largest number, ask the user if they would like to find
another largest number, or if they would like to quit.
§ Hint: How many while loops do you need to complete this part?
Sample Output for Part 2
Input an integer greater than or equal to 0 or -1 to quit:
> 1
> 8
> 34
> 9
> -1
The largest number is 34
Would you like to find the largest number again? (y/n): y
Input an integer greater than or equal to 0 or -1 to quit:
> 7
> 2
> 3
> 2
> 2
> -1
The largest number is 7
Would you like to find the largest number again? (y/n): n
Goodbye!
Deliverables and Submission Instructions
• Create a folder on your computer called
ITP115_a#_lastname_firstname
(replace # with this lab number)
• Inside the folder, include your python source code
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• Compress the folder (make a zip file) called
ITP115_a#_lastname_firstname.zip
(replace # with this assignment number)
• Upload zip file to Blackboard site for our course
• Assignments that do not run are subject to 50% penalty
Grading
Item Points
Part 1: Pig Elvish 15
Part 2: Largest Number 10
Total* 25
* Points will be deducted for poor code style, or improper submission.
