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Albert Sweigart (but you can call him Al), is a software developer in San Francisco, California who enjoys bicycling, volunteering, haunting coffee shops, and making useful software. He is originally from Houston, Texas. He finally put his University of Texas at Austin computer science degree in a frame. He is an atheist, a cat person, and fears that he is losing brain cells over time. He laughs out loud when watching park squirrels, which makes people think he’s a simpleton. His web site and blog are located at http://coffeeghost.net
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- Paperback: 366 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 12, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1469901730
- ISBN-13: 978-1469901732
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.9 x 9.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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"Making Games with Python and Pygame" is the second in a series of tutorial books from Al Sweigart. Knowing that it can often be a somewhat tedious affair, Sweigart takes the approach that it's easier to learn a new computer language if it's applied to something fun. His first book, "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python", put this to great effect as it lead the reader through learning basic Python by creating several small and simple games. His latest book continues this concept with more complex games and introduces the Pygame library for manipulating graphics, animation and sound. Well, re-introduces Pygame. The "Invent" book had a chapter on Pygame but it really needs its own book, hence this one.
"Making Games with Python and Pygame" is divided up into ten chapters. Over the course of the book, you will learn to create twelve games and every one of them is fun and very useful in the concepts that they teach. Make no mistake, this is not a book on basic Python syntax or just using the Pygame library. This book teaches you how to make actual games with a nice level of "professional" touches. I was surprised by a number of the hidden gems that were included in the book.
Each chapter follows the same basic formula. First is a brief description of the game that will be created and how it works. Next, is the full source code for the game. Then, he goes through the code, section by section, with a thorough explanation of what the code does and why it does it. At the end of the chapter, is often ideas for expanding the game and a link to "buggy" versions of the game that you can use to practice debugging techniques. The buggy versions can all be downloaded and each version tells you exactly what is wrong with the code.
Ever since I was around 7, I always wanted to create my own video games. Inspired by games like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Pikmin 2, I decided to finally learn how to make games. I found a pretty well-known program called Game Maker and began building my own games.
I continued using game maker for about 6 years, but by then I felt like I needed something more powerful. Game Maker was great, but it wasn't really what I wanted. After researching different languages to learn, I finally decided on Python, and to my luck, I was given a free review copy of "Making Games with Python and Pygame" from the author, Al Sweigart.
Before reading this book, one needs to know that this is not a book for complete beginners. Fortunately for me, Game Maker has taught me most of the concepts needed to fully understand the book, but someone brand-new to programming may have some trouble with it. Fortunately, Al has another book called "Invent your own computer games with Python" which is up for free download at [...]. This book doesn't touch on Pygame, but it shows you how to make basic games as well as teaching you the basics of Python.
The first thing that I've noticed when reading through the book is of how easy to read it is. I've worked through other textbooks trying to understand how everything works, but the explanations and definitions are too vague to make sense of what everything is. In this book, everything is much clearer. I can finally find out what a module and method is!
The book guides you through making simple games like clones of Tetris and Sokoban. After showing the source code for each of these games, Al breaks down the program and tells you what each line of code does and how it is significant.
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