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Python Projects for Kids

By : Jessica Ingrassellino
Book Image

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

Initializing the score


In order to have a score, we are going to create a variable for each player that begins at the default score, zero. As this is a global variable, like the other integers, it will change as the game loop runs. For now, we just need to have placeholders for each player. So, starting on line 46, add these lines of code to your game:

  # initialize score
  player1_score = 0
  player2_score = 0

We have now created all of the global variables that we need to write code that is easier to understand. Remember, these are called global variables because they can be used throughout the entire code file. Save your file. Then, compare your code with the completed code in this screenshot: