Welcome to Coder’s Club

Coding == Magic ?

You type a bunch of words on a keyboard.

If you get them right, you can make something happen.

If you get them perfect, you can change the world.

Contents

• Welcome to Coder’s Club
  • What you have to do to Succeed
    • Starting Python
    • Hello World
• Shells and Consoles: Windows into your Computer
  • Exploring the Computer
    • Looking Around
    • Moving Around
    • Moving Things Around
  • Some Hints
• Feeling our Way Around
  • Values and Assignment
    • Exercise
  • Variables
    • Exercise
    • Extra Exercise
  • Math
    • Exercise
  • More Math
    • Exercise
    • Extra Exercise
  • Booleans
  • Comparisons
  • Boolean Combinations
  • Boolean Tests
    • if Statements
  • String Comparisons
  • Types
    • Integers (int)
    • Floats (float)
    • Strings (str)
    • Booleans (bool)
    • Exercise
    • Extra Exercise
  • Type Conversions
    • Exercise
  • Getting Input
    • Exercise
  • Lists
    • Tuples
  • List Indexing
    • List Slicing
    • Other Objects
    • Exercise
  • Dictionaries
    • Creating Dictionaries
    • Adding, Accessing Keys
    • Deleting Keys
    • Checking for Keys
    • Key Matching
    • Namespaces
  • Exceptions and Tracebacks
    • Exercise
• Functions
  • Defining a Function
  • Parameters for Reuse
  • Naming and Documentation
  • Scoping
  • Default Parameters
• Scripts/Programs
  • Creating a Script
  • Getting to the Command Prompt
• Guessing Game
  • Breaking Down the Problem (Pseudocode)
  • Code Walk Through
  • Create a Random Number
    • Exercise: Setup the Game Script
  • Ask for a Number
    • Exercise: Ask for a Number
    • Review: Ask for a Number
  • Until the User Succeeds
    • Exercise: Loop Until Success
    • Review: Loop Until Success
  • Give Guidance and Congratulations
    • Exercise: Give Guidance
    • Review: Give Guidance
  • Extra Exercises
• Heart Click
  • First, A Pink Screen
  • Adding a Heart
    • Where To Draw
    • Drawing (Blitting) the Image
  • Checking for a Heart-Hit
    • Rewarding the User
  • Moving the Heart
  • Bouncing Heart
  • Randomizing Motion
  • Exiting on Winning
  • Audio Prompts
  • Final Sample Code
  • Documentation
  • Next Steps
• Heart Click in Functions
  • Passing Around State
  • Refactoring into Functions (Setup State)
    • Review Setup State
  • Refactoring User Input
  • Main Function
  • Keep Going
  • Sample Solution
• Heart Click ++
  • Quick Review
  • Your Idea
  • Breaking Down the Idea
  • What Don’t You Know Yet?
• Checkup: Where are You?
  • Puzzles
  • Back to Your Game
• Installing Python at Home
  • What We are Doing
  • Windows Installation 10+
  • Mac/OS-X Installation
  • Linux Installation
• Useful Links for Learning
  • Other Approaches
• It Crashes!
  • Why did it crash?
  • Pause Before Crash-exit
  • Debugging/Line by Line
• How do Computers Represent Images?
  • Image File Formats (PNG, JPEG)