How to Code a Caesar Cipher in Python
What will be Covered in this How to.
Why should you use Python?
What is Cryptography?
What is a Caesar Cipher?
What is Encryption?
What is Decryption?
Building the Cipher.
What will be Covered in this How-to.
In this How-to, I will be showing you how to build a Caesar Cipher using Python. I will cover functions with inputs, using keyword and positional arguments, how encryption and decryption work in Cryptography, and how it is going to be used to build the Caesar Cipher. I will be built using Python 3.9. This is the most up-to-date version of Python so there will be some minor differences but nothing too drastic if you are working with Python 3.6 or higher.
Why Should you use Python?
In case, you don’t already know Python is a very easy language to learn, both for beginners and for developers coming over from other languages. Python has simple syntax making the learning curve easy, it is flexible and dynamic and debugging is pretty easy since Python will point you to the line where the mistake is and what is expected. If you do happen to come across an error code you don’t recognize or understand, your best bet is to copy the error message and paste…
