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Python Projects for Kids

Python Projects for Kids

By : Jessica Ingrassellino
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Python Projects for Kids

Python Projects for Kids

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By: Jessica Ingrassellino
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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 (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Welcome! Let's Get Started
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1. Welcome! Let's Get Started
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Python projects for you
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The prerequisites of Python
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Write and run your first program in the command line
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Make yourself a work folder
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A quick task for you
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Summary
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2. Variables, Functions, and Users
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2. Variables, Functions, and Users
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Variables
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Functions
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Users interacting with your program
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Using the text editor and the command line
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Build your own function – name()
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Going the extra mile
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A quick task for you
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3. Calculate This!
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3. Calculate This!
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The calculator
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Basic functions
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Operations on two numbers
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New functions – subtraction, multiplication, and division
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Finding a remainder – modulo
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Running your program
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A quick task for you
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4. Making Decisions – Python Control Flows
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4. Making Decisions – Python Control Flows
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Is it equal, not equal, or something else?
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Conditional statements – if, elif, else
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Loops
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5. Loops and Logic
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5. Loops and Logic
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Higher or Lower
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A quick task for you
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6. Working with Data – Lists and Dictionaries
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6. Working with Data – Lists and Dictionaries
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Lists
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Dictionaries
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List or dictionary
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7. What's in Your Backpack?
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7. What's in Your Backpack?
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Setting up our coding environment
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Planning to program your game
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Skills needed to make a program
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Score, play again, or quit?
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Getting and storing player information
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Adding items to the virtual backpack
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Limiting items in a virtual backpack
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Testing your code so far
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A game loop
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Bringing back the while loop
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Comparing guesses with backpack items
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Keeping score
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Ending the game
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Testing your game
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8. pygame
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8. pygame
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What is pygame?
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Installing pygame
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pygame
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9. Tiny Tennis
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9. Tiny Tennis
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Introduction to game programming principles
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The game plan
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Creating an outline of game parts
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Section 1 – imports, globals, and drawings
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Initializing the score
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Testing section 1
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Section 2 – moving the paddles
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The increase and decrease value (-= and +=)
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Testing section 2
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Section 3 – moving the ball
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Testing – section 3
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Section 4 – draw screen and track the score
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Ending the program
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Play Tiny Tennis!
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10. Keep Coding!
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10. Keep Coding!
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What we learned and your next steps
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Classes and objects – very important next steps!
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More fun with games
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Adding music to games
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Adding graphics to games
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Remake or design games
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Other games
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Other uses of Python
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Coding challenges
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A. Quick Task Answers
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A. Quick Task Answers
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Chapter 1, Welcome! Let's Get Started
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Chapter 2, Variables, Functions, and Users
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Chapter 3, Calculate This!
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Chapter 4, Making Decisions – Python Control Flows
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Chapter 5, Loops and Logic
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Chapter 6, Working with Data – Lists and Dictionaries
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Chapter 7, What's in Your Backpack?
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Chapter 8, pygame
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Index
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The calculator

The first calculator was invented in 1966 at Texas Instruments (http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/timeline/eps/1960/docs/67-handheld_calc_invented.htm) and was able to do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The calculator had eighteen keys and could display twelve numbers on the screen. While it doesn't seem like much at first, especially compared to the technology we now enjoy, there is quite a lot of code and decision making that go into the operations that a basic calculator performs.

When we want to figure out how something works, we need to break it down into smaller parts. Let's take a look at how the calculator adds numbers together:

  1. First, the calculator needs power.

  2. The user enters the first number.

  3. The user presses an operation key (+, -, *, or /).

  4. The user enters a second number.

  5. The user presses the = key.

  6. Then, an answer is printed to the screen.

On a basic calculator, the computer does not keep all of the numbers on the screen. The computer...

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