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Python for Teenagers: Learn to Program like a Superhero!
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Python for Teenagers: Learn to Program like a Superhero!

by James R. Payne
May 2019
Beginner
336 pages
6h 49m
English
Apress
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© James R. Payne 2019
James R. PaynePython for Teenagershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4550-7_11

11. Python for Gaming

James R. Payne1 
(1)
Deerfield Beach, FL, USA
 

It is only appropriate that we have a chapter where we discuss creating video games in Python – after all, it is that very interest that got me started programming all those years ago when I was a kid. Things have progressed a lot since then; at the time, PC games were text-based with the only images consisting of really poor quality graphics or, worse, made out of ASCII characters.

Even the sounds were very basic: think single-tone digital boops, beep, and borps. And animations? Well, they technically existed – for a good example of a really high-tech PC game of my era, check out a ...

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