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Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python guides readers through programming fundamentals using engaging game projects. Each chapter presents the full source code for a new game—such as Hangman, Tic Tac Toe, Reversi, Caesar Cipher, Guess the Number, and Dragon Realm—for students to study and modify. The book then explains core concepts exemplified by the code, covering loops, variables, input/output, flow control, and data structures like lists, dictionaries, and tuples. It also teaches debugging techniques, simple game‑playing AI, and, in later chapters, 2D graphical programming with the popular Pygame library. Designed for beginners as young as ten but suitable for any age, the book is released under a Creative Commons license and can be downloaded for free.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Technology & Computing/Programming
Authors: Al Sweigart
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