Microsoft Reactor

Is your social media feed full of colourful squares? Are your friends constantly talking about the "best first word"? Welcome to 2022 the year of word games.

In this series we'll take a look at how these games work in terms of code. We'll use Python to build our own personal wordle-like games, drill down into the data to find out what really is the best first word, and see if we can teach a computer how to play better than a person!

We'll cover a range of coding topics from Python basics, to data science, to AI. So join us each week as we explore the world of words with code!

Ep 1 - Whether you want to play Wordle-like games more than once a day, or you think there is a niche in the word game world that hasn't been filled yet, you might be thinking about making your own word game.

In this episode I'll show you how you can make your own text-based word game in Python. With nothing more than VS Code we'll have our word game up and running! From this simple framework we'll see how so many variations have been created!

Our personal word game will give us the perfect jumping off point for creating game solvers and AI algorithms in later weeks! You could even take what you make, add a webserver and make the next word game hit!

Additional resources
https://aka.ms/pythoninstallvscodeforbeginners
https://aka.ms/pythonforbeginnerslearn
https://aka.ms/Azureforstudentswhatintheworldle
https://aka.ms/Azureforprofessionalswhatintheworldle

Check out further episodes in the series here:
https://www.reneenoble.com/what-in-the-worldle

Your Speaker
Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. I’m also an avid word game player! Wordle, Obscurdle, Nerdle… I’m playing them all!

A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more!

Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.