Internet History Timeline – Python Challenge

In this challenge, you will create two Python programs that quizzes users on key milestones from the history of the internet. Our program will let the player opt between two different types of quizzes:

• Guess The Year Quiz: The program will randomly pick a key milestones from a provided Internet History Timeline (stored as a CSV file) and ask users to guess the year in which the selected milestone occurred.
• Before or After Quiz: This second quiz will will randomly pick two key milestones from the Internet History Timeline and ask the user to guess which of these two key milestones occurred first .

By completing this challenge, you will improve your Python skills while learning about the fascinating history of the internet.

Internet History Timeline

There are many factors which have had a major impact in the development of the Internet since the late 1960s to the present day. Technological inventions in computer hardware, network concepts and protocols but also the launch of widely used websites which have been adopted by millions if not billions of Internet users worldwide.

Let’s revisit some of these key milestones presented on the following timeline:

Internet History TimelineOpen a new window

Guess The Year Quiz

We have started the code to create a “Guess The Year Quiz”. Our code randomly picks up a milestone from the internet-timeline.csv file provided in the tab below. It then display this milestone on the screen and ask the user to guess the year of this milestone.

Our code is however incomplete. To finalise this quiz you will need to:

Check the annotated code provided below to see how the code randomly pick a question using the provided CSV file
Use a loop to generate 10 different questions
Add a scoring system to calculate and display a total score out of 10.

Before or After Quiz

Now that you understand how the code for the “Guess The Year” quiz works, re-use a similar approach to create the second quiz called “Before or After?”. Your program will need to:

Randomly pick two milestones from the Internet History Timeline (using the provided CSV file)
Display both milestones on the screen
Ask the user to guess which of the two milestones occurred first
Check the user’s guess and provide feedback on their guess
Use a loop to generate 10 different questions
Add a scoring system to calculate and display a total score out of 10.

Solution...

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