Chapters

• 1. Foreword
  • 1.1. Programming Is For Everyone
  • 1.2. Programming Pays Well
  • 1.3. What Can You Create By The End Of The Course?
• 2. Setting Up Your System
  • 2.1. Setup the Programming Environment
  • 2.2. Viewing File Extensions
  • 2.3. Review
• 3. Version Control Systems
  • 3.1. Quick Reference
  • 3.2. What is a Distributed Version Control System
  • 3.3. Installing Git
  • 3.4. Forking the Repository
  • 3.5. Cloning the Repository
  • 3.6. Open Project in Pycharm
  • 3.7. Change a File
  • 3.8. Installing Arcade
  • 3.9. Commit Your Code
  • 3.10. Push Your Code
  • 3.11. Turning In Your Programs
  • 3.12. What If You Can’t Push?
  • 3.13. Longer Git Command Reference
  • 3.14. Review
• 4. The Print Function
  • 4.1. Printing “Hello World”
  • 4.2. Entering Our Program
  • 4.3. Running Our Program
  • 4.4. Errors and Warnings
  • 4.5. Multiple Print Lines
  • 4.6. Escape Codes
  • 4.7. Triple Quotes
  • 4.8. Review
• 5. How to Draw with Your Computer
  • 5.1. Creating a New Program
  • 5.2. Comment Your Code
  • 5.3. Import the Arcade Library
  • 5.4. How to Open a Window for Drawing
  • 5.5. Clearing the screen
  • 5.6. Specifying Colors
  • 5.7. The Coordinate System
  • 5.8. Drawing
  • 5.9. Specifying Parameters By Name
  • 5.10. Future Improvements
  • 5.11. Real-World Applications
  • 5.12. Review
• 6. What is a Programming Language?
  • 6.1. Central Processing Unit
  • 6.2. Computer Languages
  • 6.3. Python as a Computer Language
  • 6.4. Review
  • 6.5. Review Questions
• 7. Variables and Expressions
  • 7.1. How to Use Variables
  • 7.2. How to Create Expressions
  • 7.3. Printing Variables
  • 7.4. Review
• 8. Creating Functions
  • 8.1. Creating Simple Functions
  • 8.2. Creating a Main Function
  • 8.3. Take in Data with Parameters
  • 8.4. Returning and Capturing Values
  • 8.5. Documenting Functions
  • 8.6. Variable Scope
  • 8.7. Pass-by-Copy
  • 8.8. Functions Calling Functions
  • 8.9. Review
• 9. Drawing With Functions
  • 9.1. Make The main Function
  • 9.2. Make The Drawing Functions
  • 9.3. How To Animate A Drawing Function
• 10. If Statements
  • 10.1. Basic Comparisons
  • 10.2. Flowcharts
  • 10.3. More Comparison Types
  • 10.4. Indentation
  • 10.5. Using And/Or
  • 10.6. Boolean Variables
  • 10.7. The input Function
  • 10.8. Else and Else If
  • 10.9. Text Comparisons
  • 10.10. Review
• 11. For Loops
  • 11.1. Introduction to Looping
  • 11.2. For Loops
  • 11.3. Nesting Loops
  • 11.4. Keep a Running Total
  • 11.5. Review
• 12. While Loops
  • 12.1. Using Increment Operators
  • 12.2. Common Problems With while Loops
  • 12.3. Looping Until User Wants To Quit
  • 12.4. The break And continue Statements
  • 12.5. Review
• 13. Random Numbers
  • 13.1. The randrange Function
  • 13.2. Random Chance
  • 13.3. The random Function
  • 13.4. Number Guessing Game Example
  • 13.5. Mudball Example
  • 13.6. Online Coding Problems
• 14. Advanced Looping
  • 14.1. Print Statements and Line Endings
  • 14.2. Advanced Looping Problems
• 15. Introduction to Lists
  • 15.1. Data Types
  • 15.2. Working With Lists
  • 15.3. Create an Empty List
  • 15.4. Iterating (Looping) Through a List
  • 15.5. Looping With Both An Index And Element
  • 15.6. Adding to a List
  • 15.7. Summing or Modifying a List
  • 15.8. Slicing Strings
  • 15.9. Secret Codes
  • 15.10. Associative Arrays
• 16. Classes, Constructors, and Attributes
  • 16.1. Using Classes and Objects to Group Data
  • 16.2. Defining Classes
  • 16.3. Creating Objects
  • 16.4. Using Objects in Functions
  • 16.5. Customizing the Constructor
  • 16.6. Address Class With Init Parameters
  • 16.7. Typing Attributes
  • 16.8. Data Classes
  • 16.9. Static Variables
  • 16.10. Review
• 17. Class Methods
  • 17.1. Example: Ball Class
  • 17.2. Functions and References
  • 17.3. Review Questions
  • 17.4. Avoid This Mistake
  • 17.5. Review Questions
  • 17.6. Is-A and Has-A Relationships
  • 17.7. Instance Variables Hiding Static Variables
• 18. Using the Window Class
  • 18.1. Creating a Window with a Class
  • 18.2. Extending the Window Class
  • 18.3. Drawing with the Window Class
  • 18.4. Animating
• 19. User Control
  • 19.1. Move with the Mouse
  • 19.2. Mouse Clicks
  • 19.3. Move with the Keyboard
  • 19.4. Moving with the Game Controller
  • 19.5. Joystick Values
  • 19.6. Deadzone
• 20. Sound Effects
  • 20.1. Loading Sounds
  • 20.2. Playing Sounds
  • 20.3. Triggering Sounds
  • 20.4. Finding Sounds
  • 20.5. Sound File Formats
• 21. Sprites And Collisions
  • 21.1. Finding Images for Sprites
  • 21.2. Basic Sprites and Collisions
• 22. Moving Sprites
  • 22.1. Moving Sprites Down
  • 22.2. Bouncing Coins
  • 22.3. Coins Moving In Circles
  • 22.4. Rotating Sprites
• 23. Debugging Programs
  • 23.1. Understanding a Stack Trace
  • 23.2. Use Print Statements
  • 23.3. Google The Error
  • 23.4. How to Ask Questions
• 24. Using Sprites to Shoot
  • 24.1. Getting Started
  • 24.2. Keeping The Player At The Bottom
  • 24.3. Moving The Coins Up
  • 24.4. Set Up Bullet List
  • 24.5. Creating Bullets
  • 24.6. Bullet Collisions
  • 24.7. Other Examples
• 25. Sprites and Walls
  • 25.1. Setup
  • 25.2. Individually Placing Walls
  • 25.3. Placing Walls With A Loop
  • 25.4. Placing Walls With A List
  • 25.5. Physics Engine
  • 25.6. Using a View Port for Scrolling
• 26. Libraries and Modules
  • 26.1. Why Create a Library?
  • 26.2. Creating Your Own Module/Library File
  • 26.3. Namespace
  • 26.4. Third Party Libraries
• 27. Searching
  • 27.1. Reading From a File
  • 27.2. Reading Into an Array
  • 27.3. Linear Search
  • 27.4. Linear Search Algorithm
  • 27.5. Variations On The Linear Search
  • 27.6. Variations On The Linear Search With Objects
  • 27.7. Binary Search
• 28. Array-Backed Grids
  • 28.1. Introduction
  • 28.2. Application
• 29. Platformers
  • 29.1. Map File
  • 29.2. Platformer Physics Engine
  • 29.3. Python Program
  • 29.4. Other Examples
• 30. Sorting
  • 30.1. Swapping Values
  • 30.2. Selection Sort
  • 30.3. Insertion Sort
  • 30.4. Full Sorting Example
• 31. Exceptions
  • 31.1. Vocabulary
  • 31.2. Exception Handling
  • 31.3. Example: Saving High Score
  • 31.4. Exception Objects
  • 31.5. Exception Generating
  • 31.6. Proper Exception Use
• 32. Recursion
  • 32.1. Where is Recursion Used?
  • 32.2. How is Recursion Coded?
  • 32.3. Controlling Recursion Depth
  • 32.4. Recursion In Mathematics
  • 32.5. Recursive Graphics
  • 32.6. Recursive Mazes
  • 32.7. Recursive Binary Search
• 33. String Formatting
  • 33.1. Quick Reference
  • 33.2. Decimal Numbers
  • 33.3. Strings
  • 33.4. Clock Example with Leading Zeros
  • 33.5. Floating Point Numbers
  • 33.6. Printing Dollars and Cents
  • 33.7. Use in Arcade Programs
• 34. Virtual Environments In PyCharm
  • 34.1. Creating a New Virtual Environment
  • 34.2. Updating Libraries