Zookeeper — Console Habitats (Jetbrains project)

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A tiny console application that simulates camera feeds from different animal habitats. This is a JetBrains Academy learning project to practice lists, loops, user input, and basic program structure in Python.

Features

• Display ASCII-art "camera" views for a set of animals (camel, lion, deer, goose, bat, rabbit).
• Simple menu driven by user input (enter habitat number or exit).
• Lightweight, dependency-free — runs on Python 3.

Learning goals

• Work with lists to store multiple items.
• Use loops and conditionals to control program flow.
• Read user input and handle simple input validation.
• Practice building a small, interactive console app.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6 or later installed.

Running the program

1. Clone or download the repository.
2. From the project directory run:

python zookeeper.py
# or
python3 zookeeper.py

(Replace the filename above if your main script uses a different name.)

Usage example

When you run the program you'll see a prompt like:

Please enter the number of the habitat you would like to view:

Enter a number between 0 and 5 to view an animal habitat (0 — camel, 1 — lion, 2 — deer, 3 — goose, 4 — bat, 5 — rabbit). Enter exit to quit the app.

Example session:

Please enter the number of the habitat you would like to view: 0
Switching on the camera in the camel habitat...
  ___.-''''-.
 /___  @    |
 ...
Look at that! Our little camel is sunbathing!

Please enter the number of the habitat you would like to view: exit
See you later!

Project structure

• zookeeper.py — main script containing the habitats list and interactive loop.
• README.md — this file.