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Python is a powerful, expressive programming language thats easy to learn and fun to use! But books about learning to program in Python can be dull and grayand thats no fun for anyone.
Python for Kids brings Python to life and brings kids (and their parents) into the wonderful world of programming. Author Jason R. Briggs guides readers through the basics, experimenting with unique (and often hilarious) example programs that feature ravenous monsters, secret agents, thieving ravens, and more. New terms are defined; code is colored, dissected, and explained; and quirky, full-color illustrations keep things fun and engaging throughout.
Chapters end with programming puzzles designed to stretch the brain and strengthen understanding. By the end of the book, young readers will have programmed two complete games: a clone of the famous Pong, and Mr. Stick Man Races for the Exita platform game with jumps, animation, and much more.
This second edition has been completely updated and revised to reflect the latest Python version and programming practices, with new puzzles to inspire readers to take their code farther than ever before. Why should serious adults have all the fun? Python for Kids is the ticket into the amazing world of computer programming.
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Thanks to the No Starch team for all their efforts, and to Miran Lipovaa for his brilliant illustrations.
Thanks to my wife, daughter, and son, for suffering with a husband and father who had his nose buried in a computer screen even more than usual.
To Mum, for endless amounts of encouragement over the years.
Finally, thanks to my Dad for buying a computer back in the 1970s and putting up with someone who wanted to use it as much as he did. None of this would have been possible without him.
Youve learned some fundamental programming concepts in your tour of Python, but there is plenty more to discovereither with Python or using other programming languages. While Python is incredibly useful, it is not always the best tool for every task, so do not be afraid to try other ways to program your computer.
If you want to stick with Python, and are looking for more advanced books to read, the Python wiki (books page) is a good place to start: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBooks/ .
If you just want to explore more of what Python can do, it has a lot of built-in modules. (This is Pythons batteries included philosophy. Check the Python documentation for the full list of whats available: https://docs.python.org/3/py-modindex.html .) In addition, there are a huge number of modules that are provided for free by programmers from all over the world. For example, you could try Pygame ( https://www.pygame.org ) for games development, or Jupyter Notebooks ( https://jupyter.org ), a web-based environment for editing and running Python code in the browser. These and other modules are available to browse at https://pypi.org . To install these modules, youll need to use a tool called pip , which well briefly look at next.
As long as youve installed Python 3.10 or newer, pip should be installed by default. To install pip on Windows, if youre using an older version of Python, you can download the script get-pip.py from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py .
Save the file to your home folder and then open a command prompt (click Start and enter cmd in the search box). To install, type python get-pip.py .
To install pip on Ubuntu Linux, youll need the system administrator password. Open a terminal and enter the following commands (be sure to change the version number in the following command as needed):
sudo apt install python3.10 -distutilssudo apt install curlcurl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py python3.10 get-pip.pyWith the first two commands, you may get an error saying they are already installed; this can be safely ignored.
To install pip on Raspberry Pi, open a terminal and enter the following commands:
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py python3.10 get-pip.pyYou can safely ignore any warning messages that display.
As long as youve installed Python 3.10 or newer, pip should be installed by default. If youre using an older version of Python, you might need to install pip by opening a terminal and running the following command:
easy_install- 3.9 pipDepending on which version of Python you have installed, you might need to enter a different version of easy_install (such as easy_install-3.7 , for example).
To get an idea of how PyGame works, first install it using pip . Open a command prompt (on Windows, enter cmd in the search box; on Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi, or macOS, search for Terminal ) and then enter the following command (your version number may be different):
pip 3.10 install pygameNote
Depending on your Windows and Python versions, this might not work. If you get an error such as this:
'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
then try running the following commands:
cd %HOMEPATH%AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python\python -m pip install pygameWriting code with PyGame is a bit more complicated than using tkinter . For example, in , we displayed an image by using tkinter with this code:
from tkinter import *tk = Tk()canvas = Canvas(tk, width=400, height=400)canvas.pack()myimage = PhotoImage( file = 'c:\\Users\\jason\\test.gif' )canvas.create_image(0, 0, anchor=NW, image=myimage)To display an image with PyGame , you can use the following:
import pygamepygame.init()display = pygame.display.set_mode((500, 500))img = pygame.image.load( 'c:\\Users\\jason\\test.gif' )display.blit(img, (0, 0))pygame.display.flip()After importing the pygame module, we call the init function; this initializes the module so it can be used. We then set up the display, passing a tuple for the width and height (500 pixels wide by 500 pixels high). Note the additional parentheses here are important: first, parentheses for the function itself ( set_mode(...) ), and then parentheses for a tuple ( 500, ).
We then load the image, the reference (or label) for which is the variable img (remember, depending on which operating system youre using, you might need to change the path of that image). Next, we draw the image to the display using the blit function, passing the img variable and a tuple containing the top-left position of the image ( 0, 0 ). The image wont show in the window yet; the next function on the last linewhere we flip the displayactually causes the image to appear. This line is effectively telling Pygame to redraw the display window.
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If you run this outside of IDLE, youll need to add a few additional lines at the end:
while True : for event in pygame.event.get(): if event. type == pygame.QUIT: raise SystemExitThis code is to stop the window from immediately closing after displaying the image.
If you want to do more with games or graphics programming, youll find that many options are available, not just with Python. Here are just a few:
- Scratch ( http://scratch.mit.edu ), a tool for developing games and animations. (Its a block-based visual programming language, so quite different from programming with Python.)
- Construct3 ( https://www.construct.net ), a commercial tool for creating games in a browser.
- Game Maker Studio ( https://www.yoyogames.com ), another commercial tool for creating games.
- Godot ( https://godotengine.org ), a free games engine for creating both 2D and 3D graphics.
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