Program Arcade Games: With Python and Pygame

✍ Scribed by Paul Vincent Craven

Publisher: Apress
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 403
Edition: 4
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This fine book shows you how to build fun, cool arcade games using the Python programming language and the PyGame framework, a Python-based game application development engine. Use Python and Pygame to learn and build arcade games!

What You'll Learn

How to create quiz games
How to start using graphics
How to create and animate graphics
How to integrate and use game controllers
How to add sound and bitmapped graphics
How to build grid-based games

Audience

This book assumes no prior programming knowledge.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Before Getting Started…....Pages 1-10
Create a Custom Calculator....Pages 11-31
What Is a Computer Language?....Pages 33-40
Quiz Games and If Statements....Pages 41-57
Guessing Games with Random Numbers and Loops....Pages 59-79
Introduction to Graphics....Pages 81-106
Back to Looping....Pages 107-119
Introduction to Lists....Pages 121-136
Introduction to Animation....Pages 137-152
Functions....Pages 153-178
Controllers and Graphics....Pages 179-204
Bitmapped Graphics and Sound....Pages 205-215
Introduction to Classes....Pages 217-246
Introduction to Sprites....Pages 247-265
Libraries and Modules....Pages 267-272
Searching....Pages 273-285
Array-Backed Grids....Pages 287-300
Sorting....Pages 301-309
Exceptions....Pages 311-318
Recursion....Pages 319-334
Formatting....Pages 335-346
Exercises....Pages 347-388
Back Matter....Pages 389-392

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Software Engineering

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