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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

Testing your code so far


You have now written all of the data storage elements of the game. Save your code again if you have not done so already, and test what you have written.

First, do a visual test of your backpack.py code file. Make sure that your code is indented properly. Look for syntax errors such as misplaced quotes, periods, square brackets, curly braces, and parentheses. Make sure that everything is spelled correctly. Save after each mistake that you fix.

Next, use your command prompt (Windows) or terminal (Mac/Linux) to test your code by running your program. When you run your program, you should expect to be asked to enter the name of player 1, enter four items, enter the name of player 2, and enter four more items:

If you want to make sure that the backpack items you enter are being properly stored, you can use the test code from line 20 in the screenshot. Just uncomment (erase the hashtag in front of) the code in line 20, and then run the code again. Use the print statement...