Jul-17-2018, 01:14 AM
Hello all,
I will try to make this as painless as possible for all of us--I'm just looking for some opinions on the best place to get started here.
I am a writer--not a coder. I was struck by an idea recently, and I seem to have fallen down a wormhole.
Let me explain: I am interested in creating a computer generated novel. In college, I wrote a novel. It's terrible. I have since written better things, but some recent inspiration has inspired to use the terrible novel I've written as fodder for a better novel, and it seems Python is possibly the tool I need to use to reach my destination.
The problem is, it seems like learning an entire programming language is an obstacle to getting my project off the ground; so, I was going to jump in and see how far I get before I throw in the towel.
My ideal goal is to write some code that will contain, essentially, 10 - 13 paragraphs that function like Mad Libs, with certain elements being pulled from a list of variables (predefined by me. So, one example might be the following:
"I took a [bus, car, bike, train] across town."
Let's call that a paragraph. I want my program to randomly select one of those modes of transportation every time it creates that paragraph. And I want that paragraph (and nine or 10 others, all with variables) to print over and over and over and over again, to about 100,000 words.
Of the hundreds and hundreds of hours of tutorials laid out before me, I am not certain which path I should embark upon to get to my destination. The reader in me was drawn to The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python! as a starting point; any opinions would be welcome.
Thanks for reading my ramble--cheers!
I will try to make this as painless as possible for all of us--I'm just looking for some opinions on the best place to get started here.
I am a writer--not a coder. I was struck by an idea recently, and I seem to have fallen down a wormhole.
Let me explain: I am interested in creating a computer generated novel. In college, I wrote a novel. It's terrible. I have since written better things, but some recent inspiration has inspired to use the terrible novel I've written as fodder for a better novel, and it seems Python is possibly the tool I need to use to reach my destination.
The problem is, it seems like learning an entire programming language is an obstacle to getting my project off the ground; so, I was going to jump in and see how far I get before I throw in the towel.
My ideal goal is to write some code that will contain, essentially, 10 - 13 paragraphs that function like Mad Libs, with certain elements being pulled from a list of variables (predefined by me. So, one example might be the following:
"I took a [bus, car, bike, train] across town."
Let's call that a paragraph. I want my program to randomly select one of those modes of transportation every time it creates that paragraph. And I want that paragraph (and nine or 10 others, all with variables) to print over and over and over and over again, to about 100,000 words.
Of the hundreds and hundreds of hours of tutorials laid out before me, I am not certain which path I should embark upon to get to my destination. The reader in me was drawn to The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python! as a starting point; any opinions would be welcome.
Thanks for reading my ramble--cheers!