Classes & Objects Programming Exercises in Python

Challenge 1 – Dog Class

Class Dog

Attributes:

• Name
• size
• Breed Default: ‘Unknown’
• Date of birth in DD/MM/YYYY format  Default: ‘Unknown’

Methods:

• Bark
  • This should get the dog to bark (print out the word ‘woof!’)
• get_name
  • This should return the dog’s name
• set_name
  • This should allow the user to set an alphabetical name between 2 and 30 characters.
  • Convert the name to title case before setting
• dog_years
  • This should calculate a dog’s age in dog years (use 1 year = 7 dog years)

Challenge 2 – Deck of Cards

Create 2 Classes:

Class Card

Attributes:

• name
• value

Class Deck

Attributes:

• pack: this should be initialised to a list of full deck of cards objects
• discarded: This should be initialised to an empty list

Methods

• Shuffle
• Pick a card (should return a card instance from the top of the deck)

Create a simple higher or lower game using your deck of cards