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!
