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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

Play Tiny Tennis!


The best part about Tiny Tennis is that you can play it against yourself, making it easy to test the game and experiment with different parts of the game. Now, when you run the file from your terminal, a window that looks like this should pop up:

The ball should start moving immediately toward one side or the other of the screen. You can test the game by making sure that the paddles on each side of the screen are able to hit the ball and that they do not go outside of the screen space. You can test the scoring mechanism to make sure that the appropriate player is getting the points for each shot that they make past the other player. Then, you can invite others to play the game with you.

If you are not happy with parts of the game, you can change them. For example, you might choose a different color for the ball, paddles, and the screen. Maybe you want the paddles to be longer or shorter or, perhaps, thinner. Maybe you want to make the ball bigger or smaller by changing the...