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Coding Games in Python

by DK

Learn Python by making games

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Learn Python by making games

Quizzes and puzzles provide the starting points for hands-on Python projects in this illustrated coding guide. Chapters break each game into numbered steps, then introduce ways to customize it with features such as animation, music, scrolling backgrounds, and sound. Along the way, the projects cover programming concepts including loops, strings, flags, and debugging, connecting game-making with broader coding skills. The book also includes planning and testing as part of the process, and points to free tools such as Pygame and Pygame Zero for building the games.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 9–12 interested in learning to code through game projects.
  • Beginning Python learners looking for step-by-step activities.
  • Young programmers who want to experiment with game features and customization.

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Python programmingGame designCoding fundamentalsTesting and debugging

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Book overview

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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