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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


This chapter has been a lot of work. We reviewed almost every skill that we learned so far! We used logic in our if/else statements. We used Booleans, such as True and False, to change our game state. We ran for loops to control how many times certain events too place, and we ran a while loop as our game loop. Finally, we used lists and dictionaries to store customized information and to allow for information, such as the player score, to be changed during the game. We learned a new skill in this chapter: nesting. Our backpack game used nested lists and dictionaries. We also used nested loops, such as our while loop, with the for loop inside.

This chapter used one of many ways to make this game. Our purpose was to use all of the tools we have in our Python toolbox. There are many different ways to make a backpack game. Some might be simpler, others might be more complicated. Something to explore before you go on is to try and make a variation of this game before you go on. You can...