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Python Projects for Kids

By : Jessica Ingrassellino
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Python Projects for Kids

By: Jessica Ingrassellino

Overview of this book

Kids are always the most fast-paced and enthusiastic learners, and are naturally willing to build stuff that looks like magic at the end (when it works!). Programming can be one such magic. Being able to write a program that works helps them feel they've really achieved something. Kids today are very tech-savvy and cannot wait to enter the fast-paced digital world. Because Python is one of the most popular languages and has a syntax that is quite simple to understand, even kids are eager to use it as a stepping stone to learning programming languages. This book will cover projects that are simple and fun, and teach kids how to write Python code that works. The book will teach the basics of Python programming, installation, and so on and then will move on to projects. A total of three projects, with each and every step explained carefully, without any assumption of previous experience.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Python Projects for Kids
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to create your own lists and dictionaries. You also tried to perform some basic operations with lists and dictionaries, including how to add and remove data. Finally, you learned the syntax differences between lists and dictionaries as well as the optimal uses of lists and dictionaries.

In the next chapter, we are going to move forward and make a game called What's in my backpack? This game will be a simple, two-player game that will ask both users to put some objects into a backpack and then allow each user to guess what is in the other user's backpack.

We will write code to add items to a list, keep track of usernames, items, and scores in a list and dictionary, and then use a for loop to keep track of the game. There are a lot of moving parts in our next game, and it will be a lot of fun to make something that has two players! Are you ready? Let's go!