Rolling Dice With Python
A buddy of mine asked me a couple days ago if it’d be possible to write a program that rolled dice and dealt with the results in a certain way. Seeing this as an opportunity to dabble in some programming I naturally replied that 1) Yes, it’s possible, and 2) I’ll do it for you.
The obvious choice for the job was Python >.
Anyway, the task took an embarassingly long time (over 3 hours), but I didn’t feel bad about it considering my limited programming experience. Plus, the old saying about only getting good at programming by doing it is quite true.
At any rate, here’s what I came up with for the basic task, which was to roll 2-9 d6 and add the two highest rolls. From here I’m going to add the ability to provide a second argument that determines how many times the roll with x number of dice will be made. That version will also keep a running average of the totals from each roll.