Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python
by Albert Sweigart
2015
ISBN/ASIN: 0982106017
ISBN-13: 9780982106013
Number of pages: 367
Description:
The current crop of programming books for kids that I've seen fell into two categories. First, books that did not teach programming so much as "game creation software" or in dumbed down languages to make programming "easy". Or second, they taught programming like a mathematics textbook: all principles and concepts with application left to the reader. This book takes a different approach: show the game source code right up front and explain programming principles from the examples.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(3.1MB, PDF)
Similar books
Strategy Game Programmingby Martin Fierz
These pages intend to give a comprehensive overview of the elements of a computer program which can play two-player strategy games like tic-tac-toe, connect four, checkers and chess. Code fragments in this text are written in C.
(12496 views)
Designing Adaptive Virtual Worldsby Ning Gu, Mary Lou Maher - Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Designing adaptive virtual worlds takes the design of virtual places for education, entertainment, business, and cultural activities to a new level. This book presents an agent model for a design grammar so that unique places can be created ...
(3275 views)
Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Bookby Michael Abrash - Coriolis Group Books
A book for game developers and serious assembly language programmers. It explores the technology behind the popular Doom and Quake 3-D games, and explains optimized solutions to 3-D graphics problems from texture mapping, hidden surface removal, etc.
(14921 views)
HTML5 Shoot 'em Up in an Afternoonby Bryan Bibat
Learn how to make a simple top-down shoot 'em up in a few hours using the Phaser HTML5 game framework. The book covers all of the basics: from placing and moving sprites, to managing collision detection and unit health, up to setting up a boss fight.
(401 views)