Coding Games in Python

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ISBN 10: 0606413391 ISBN 13: 9780606413398

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2018

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Build and play your own computer games, from creative quizzes to perplexing puzzles, by coding them in the Python programming language!

Whether you're a seasoned programmer or a beginner hoping to learn Python, you'll find Coding Games in Python fun to read and easy to follow. Each chapter shows you how to construct a complete working game in simple numbered steps. Using freely available resources such as Pygame, Pygame Zero, and a downloadable pack of images and sounds, you can add animations, music, scrolling backgrounds, scenery, and other exciting professional touches.

After building the game, find out how to adapt it to create your own personalised version with secret hacks and cheat codes!

You'll master the key concepts that programmers need to write code - not just in Python, but in all programming languages. Find out what bugs, loops, flags, strings, and turtles are. Learn how to plan and design the ultimate game, and then play it to destruction as you test and debug it.

Before you know it, you'll be a coding genius!

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About the Author

Lead author Craig Steele is a coding educator and a coauthor of DK's successful Help Your Kids with Computer Coding and Computer Coding Python Projects. He is a founder of CoderDojo, an educational game developer, and a digital consultant to the media. Craig teaches digital skills and coding to people of all ages and abilities.

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