A Quiz asking users a series of Harry Potter themed questions to determine which house they belong to in the Harry Potter universe.

In Terminal

Open Terminal to file location and enter:

$ ruby sorting_hat.rb

Starting Screen:

Question Example:

Possible End Result:

Our General Idea

Create a Harry Potter Sorting Hat Quiz with a bunch of Harry Potter questions with some ideas from the Fallout 3 G.O.A.T (Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test), and we also added an Aussie twist to a few of the answers.

Workflow Board

Users will also need to download the colorize ruby gem by running this code in terminal:

$ gem install colorize

With our code, the answers will have to be the same order, meaning if the user was to choose answer option 1, it will always give Gryffindor a point, so we can't put the Slytherin answer for answer option 1 because it'll give Gryffindor a point and NOT SLYTHERIN.

    if answer == 1
       gryffindor_points += 1
   elsif answer == 2
       slytherin_points += 1
   elsif answer == 3
       hufflepuff_points += 1
   elsif answer == 4
       ravenclaw_points += 1

We can maybe bypass this limitation by maybe using an array to store data, and use .push method to add in certain values (1 - 4) into our array and then count which appears more often to determine the winning house.

With our point scoring system, if the user scores an equal amount of points for 2 of the house points, it'll choose whichever house is first in our if statement.

We decided to split the code into 3 files, to make it easier to read. We have the main file, questions file and the ascii text file.

For the questions we made them into methods, and called upon them in our while loop.

We made the big ASCII text into class constants. We could've achieved this by making them into methods as well, but we wanted to expand our knowledge, and try out different methods to call things into our main file.

We added a bunch of sleep and clear commands to make it prettier and seem more user friendly when the user runs the program.

We added Text to Speech commands to make it more interactive.

Yong Liang https://github.com/YongBong946/sorting-hat

Sam Ludwig