Will McGugan - Beginning Python Games Development with Pygame

Beginning Python Games Development

With Pygame

Second Edition

Harrison Kinsley

Will McGugan

Beginning Python Games Development

Copyright 2015 by Harrison Kinsley and Will McGugan

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About the Authors

Harrison Kinsley is a software developer and entrepreneur living in Texas. He has multiple businesses, all built with Python. http://pythonprogramming.net is a Python programming tutorials website built by him, which is paired with his YouTube channel, offering almost a thousand tutorials on Python. The website itself is also written in Python's Flask, and theres even a tutorial for it! Sentdex.com is another business, which is aimed at using Python for Natural Language Processing to produce sentiment analysis on a wide variety of topics, hopefully to eventually become a sentiment search engine. Sentdex's front-end is Python's Flask, and the back-end is also written in Python. Harrison also manages a SaaS company for Bitcoin, among a few other businesses.