Download or read book The Big Book of Small Python Projects written by Al Sweigart and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Al Sweigart shows you how to easily build over 80 fun programs with minimal code and maximum creativity. If you’ve mastered basic Python syntax and you’re ready to start writing programs, you’ll find The Big Book of Small Python Projects both enlightening and fun. This collection of 81 Python projects will have you making digital art, games, animations, counting pro- grams, and more right away. Once you see how the code works, you’ll practice re-creating the programs and experiment by adding your own custom touches. These simple, text-based programs are 256 lines of code or less. And whether it’s a vintage screensaver, a snail-racing game, a clickbait headline generator, or animated strands of DNA, each project is designed to be self-contained so you can easily share it online. You’ll create: • Hangman, Blackjack, and other games to play against your friends or the computer • Simulations of a forest fire, a million dice rolls, and a Japanese abacus • Animations like a virtual fish tank, a rotating cube, and a bouncing DVD logo screensaver • A first-person 3D maze game • Encryption programs that use ciphers like ROT13 and Vigenère to conceal text If you’re tired of standard step-by-step tutorials, you’ll love the learn-by-doing approach of The Big Book of Small Python Projects. It’s proof that good things come in small programs!

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Download or read book Battleship Sudoku written by Thomas Snyder and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battleship - the classic HASBRO board game - has been popular for years. Sudoku, of course, is the craze that's won millions of converts. This title brings two games together to create a novel hybrid that's a real brain-buster. It includes boats that have numbers and aims to place the ships and complete the sudoku at the same time.

Download or read book The Art of Sudoku written by Thomas Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've never seen Sudoku like this! In The Art of Sudoku you'll find 120 hand-crafted masterpieces from World Sudoku Champion Thomas Snyder, with artistic and logical themes that could never have been produced by random computer generation. Whether you're a sudoku novice or a sudoku grandmaster, The Art of Sudoku will open your eyes to the amazing possibilities of this numbers puzzle and leave you wanting more.

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Download or read book Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python 4th Edition written by Al Sweigart and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python will teach you how to make computer games using the popular Python programming language—even if you’ve never programmed before! Begin by building classic games like Hangman, Guess the Number, and Tic-Tac-Toe, and then work your way up to more advanced games, like a text-based treasure hunting game and an animated collision-dodging game with sound effects. Along the way, you’ll learn key programming and math concepts that will help you take your game programming to the next level. Learn how to: –Combine loops, variables, and flow control statements into real working programs –Choose the right data structures for the job, such as lists, dictionaries, and tuples –Add graphics and animation to your games with the pygame module –Handle keyboard and mouse input –Program simple artificial intelligence so you can play against the computer –Use cryptography to convert text messages into secret code –Debug your programs and find common errors As you work through each game, you’ll build a solid foundation in Python and an understanding of computer science fundamentals. What new game will you create with the power of Python? The projects in this book are compatible with Python 3.

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Download or read book Cracking Codes with Python written by Al Sweigart and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to program in Python while making and breaking ciphers—algorithms used to create and send secret messages! After a crash course in Python programming basics, you’ll learn to make, test, and hack programs that encrypt text with classical ciphers like the transposition cipher and Vigenère cipher. You’ll begin with simple programs for the reverse and Caesar ciphers and then work your way up to public key cryptography, the type of encryption used to secure today’s online transactions, including digital signatures, email, and Bitcoin. Each program includes the full code and a line-by-line explanation of how things work. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to code in Python and you’ll have the clever programs to prove it! You’ll also learn how to: - Combine loops, variables, and flow control statements into real working programs - Use dictionary files to instantly detect whether decrypted messages are valid English or gibberish - Create test programs to make sure that your code encrypts and decrypts correctly - Code (and hack!) a working example of the affine cipher, which uses modular arithmetic to encrypt a message - Break ciphers with techniques such as brute-force and frequency analysis There’s no better way to learn to code than to play with real programs. Cracking Codes with Python makes the learning fun!

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