Explainer For The Rock-Paper-Scissors Game With Python (1)

import random

def the_game():
  player_choice = input("Enter a choice (rock, paper, scissors): ")
  options = ["rock", "paper", "scissors"]
  computer_choice = random.choice(options)
  response = {"player": player_choice, "computer": computer_choice}
  return response

First, I will like to point out that I am using the Replit code editor to run my codes because I actually think it’s cool.
Now, following the image we will go through the code blocks, one at a time:

import random

Why import random? Well, since we would want the computer to randomly generate a choice or option, we need to import the random as outlined here :

https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html
This is more like linking your CSS, Bootstrap, or JS to your index page.

def the_game():
  player_choice = input("Enter a choice (rock, paper, scissors): ")
  options = ["rock", "paper", "scissors"]
  computer_choice = random.choice(options)
  response = {"player": player_choice, "computer": computer_choice}
  return response

We declare a function in Python with the def keyword and the colon (:) serves as braces to contain the actions to be executed when the function is called.
Here, we created a function named the_game, and in it are a few variables:

player_choice which is assigned to an action that will be displayed for the player to input an option.

options is a variable assigned to an array of options to select from, in this case, rock, paper, or scissors.

computer_choice is a variable assigned to one of the random operations where the computer will randomly choose from the items in the random variable.

response is a variable we created that contains objects and their values, in this case, we said the word player should have player_choice variable as its value while the word computer should have the variable computer_choice as its value.

Now, we can return response when the function is called.
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Follow up on the next post for the conclusion.