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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


Congratulations on building your first game! There are so many things that you learned to do. The greatest thing about code, though, is that there are many ways to do everything. Some ways are easier to understand but not as efficient as other ways. Some code is very efficient but might not be easily understood by another programmer. The best code is both easy to understand and written in the most efficient way possible.

Throughout the previous chapter, we used a combination of code that was easy to understand, but may not have been as efficient as possible. This is because we were learning many new principles in pygame, and things, such as collision detection, can be challenging to code. You may decide to do things differently after you have a few games under your belt!

In the next chapter, we will review all that we have learned in this book, and we will also take a look at some other ways that Python is used out in the world, as Python is a very useful language to know. See you...