My daughter has been learning Python which I know nothing about (I’m not a developer). I took a look at one of the programs that she’s been working on and said I don’t know Python, but I can create something better than that in PowerShell.
I hadn’t previously used a “do until” loop in PowerShell so I decided this was as good as an excuse as any to use one since the loop has to run at least once anyway and it gave me a chance to learn something new.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 | Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech [int]$guess = 0 [int]$attempt = 0 [int]$number = Get-Random -Minimum 1 -Maximum 100 $voice = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer $voice.Speak("Ahoy matey! I'm the Dreaded Pirate Robbins, and I have a secret! It's a number between 1 and 100. I'll give you 7 tries to guess it.") do { $voice.SpeakAsync("What's your guess?") | Out-Null try { $guess = Read-Host "What's your guess?" if ($guess -lt 1 -or $guess -gt 100) { throw } } catch { $voice.Speak("Invalid number") continue } if ($guess -lt $number) { $voice.Speak("Too low, yee scurry dog!") } elseif ($guess -gt $number) { $voice.Speak("Too high, yee land lubber!") } $attempt += 1 } until ($guess -eq $number -or $attempt -eq 7) if ($guess -eq $number) { $voice.Speak("Avast! Yee guessed my secret number, yee did!") } else { $voice.Speak("Yee out of guesses! Better luck next time, yee matey! My secret number was $number") } |
I would like to thank Jason Helmick for the tip on using the .NET Framework instead of COM for the speech as well as Rohn Edwards who originally wrote a version of the code shown below that used COM which I translated into using the .NET Framework as well:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | #Requires -Version 3.0 Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech $voice = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer $voice.GetInstalledVoices() | ForEach-Object { if ($_.VoiceInfo.Id -match "TTS_MS_(?<culture>\w{2}-\w{2})_(?<name>[^_]+)") { $Name = $matches.name $Culture = [cultureinfo]$matches.culture | select -expand DisplayName } else { Write-Warning "Couldn't get info from $($_.VoiceInfo.Id)" $Name = "something I'm not going to share with you" $Culture = "something you're not going to find out" } $voice.SelectVoice($_.voiceinfo.name) $voice.Speak("Hi, my name is $Name and my speaking style is $Culture") } |
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Nice and easy to follow for a beginner like me, thanks for posting Mike
By starting with half of the number you will always get it. So, start with fifty then half of that depending on direction and reduce from there with 1/2 each time