Paul Craven - Program Arcade Games: With Python and Pygame (4th edition) [2016, PDF, ENG]

Contents at a Glance
About the Author ....................................................................................................xix
Introduction ............................................................................................................xxi
Chapter 1: Before Getting Started… ...................................................................... 1
Chapter 2: Create a Custom Calculator ............................................................... 11
Chapter 3: What Is a Computer Language? ......................................................... 33
Chapter 4: Quiz Games and If Statements ........................................................... 41
Chapter 5: Guessing Games with Random Numbers and Loops .......................... 59
Chapter 6: Introduction to Graphics .................................................................... 81
Chapter 7: Back to Looping ............................................................................... 107
Chapter 8: Introduction to Lists ......................................................................... 121
Chapter 9: Introduction to Animation ................................................................ 137
Chapter 10: Functions ....................................................................................... 153
Chapter 11: Controllers and Graphics ............................................................... 179
Chapter 12: Bitmapped Graphics and Sound ..................................................... 205
Chapter 13: Introduction to Classes .................................................................. 217
Chapter 14: Introduction to Sprites ................................................................... 247
Chapter 15: Libraries and Modules ................................................................... 267
Chapter 16: Searching ....................................................................................... 273
Chapter 17: Array-Backed Grids ........................................................................ 287
Chapter 18: Sorting ........................................................................................... 301
Chapter 19: Exceptions ...................................................................................... 311
Chapter 20: Recursion ....................................................................................... 319
Chapter 21: Formatting ..................................................................................... 335
Chapter 22: Exercises ........................................................................................ 347
Index ..................................................................................................................... 389