Coin Class HW assignment

Question

So I am doing a Coin Flip Class program for class, and this code straight from the book is giving me errors in Pycharm and VSC. I have reread this 10 times and can not find the error to get the program to run. Trying to figure out if I am missing something, or the example source code is off.

import random


# The Coin Class simulates a coin that can be flipped

class coin:
    def __init__(self):
        side.up = 'Heads'

    # Side up data attribute w/ heads

    # The Toss generates a random number in
    # the range of 0 - 1. If the number is 0, then side up is heads, otherwise side up is tails

    def toss(self):

        if random.randint(0, 1) == 0:
            self.sideup = 'Heads'
        else:
            self.sideup = 'Tails'

    # The get_sideup method returns the value referenced by sideup

    def get_sideup(self):
        return self.sideup

    # The main function


def main():
    # create an object from the coin class
    my_coin = coin()

    # Display that side facing up
    print('This side is up:', my_coin.get_sideup())

    # Toss Coin
    print('I am tossing the coin . . .')
    my_coin.toss()

    # Display the side of the coin that is facing up
    print('This side is up:', my_coin.get_sideup())

    # Call the main function
main()
``

Answer 1

You have a variable that is equal to nothing, self, and you are attempting to access an attribute of it called "up"

    def __init__(self):
        side.up = 'Heads'