The Python Game Book
by Horst Jens et al.
Publisher: thepythongamebook.com 2012
Description:
The Python Game Book written by Horst Jens and friends aims to provide interested students and teachers a broad range of material to teach themselves how to write computer games using the language Python and other free Open Source tools.
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