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Python for Experimental Psychologists, 2nd Edition
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Python for Experimental Psychologists, 2nd Edition

by Edwin S. Dalmaijer, Rebecca Hirst, Jonathan Peirce
November 2024
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
5h 22m
English
Routledge
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Make Some Noise

Edwin S. Dalmaijer

DOI: 10.4324/9781003174332-8

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to make a musical instrument out of a joystick or game controller. If you don’t have one of those, you can also use the keyboard. Although this might seem like a weak excuse to make some noise, it will actually be a very good programming exercise. If you also manage to annoy the people around you with obnoxious sound, that’s just a bonus!

Turning your joystick or keyboard into a musical instrument won’t require you to be a modern-day MacGyver. Instead, you can write a script that responds to a button press by making a sound. That’s not to say this is easy: Writing a script that responds to events requires some abstract thinking.

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