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Nguyen Duong
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Nguyen Duong
Python Development Techdegree Student 3,071 Points
Posted by Nguyen Duong
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Nguyen Duong
Python Development Techdegree Student 3,071 Points

Unit 2 Baseball Stat Project of Python Techdegree

Hello! I am on Unit 2 Project of the Python Techdegree and it took me a long time to start figuring out how to go about it.

After cleaning the data as instructed, I managed to come up with something like this and have the three teams split evenly, with an equal amount of experienced and inexperienced players on each team.

My question is: Does this look right? I know it seems almost too basic or elementary, I'm not sure if there might be a more efficient way of doing it that's more complex. I just did what I could from scratch and this is the best I could come up with at the moment with my knowledge as of now.

If I am heading in the right direction the rest of the project I should be able to figure out. I just wanted feedback up until now to see if maybe I am missing something or if the way I arrived here is too rudimentary. :(

Thank you for your time and effort!

Snapshot of my code:

https://w.trhou.se/xetfeudejq

Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,716 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,716 Points

The thing I love about Python (well for that matter, programming) is there are MANY ways to write a good project!

This is quite nice, so far, but you have some refactoring to do to complete the specifications for the assignment.

Disclaimer: I am just a moderator, so I don't know much about your Techdegree.

Comments (based on the specifications):

  1. Specification Pt 1-- Good. I like you included constants.py in your app.py. This demonstrates your understanding of "separation of concerns"
  2. Specification Pt 2-- The dunder main calling should be moved from constants.py to app.py
  3. Specification Pt 3-- A few comments about refactoring the app.py
  • clean_data() is pretty good. I can think of style hints, but this is good as is. You demonstrated encapsulation.
  • You're going to have to encapsulate the logic of separating the players into teams into a separate function e.g. one large function called allocate_teams(players_new) OR separate them into two functions separate_experience(new_players) and allocate_teams(experienced, inexperienced)
  • You will write main() to include calls to clean_data(), allocate_players(), print_players()

Keep going, you are doing great!

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