Python Games

These fabulous new tasks are intended to motivate and challenge students who have some programming experience and ability. The games, graded for difficulty and titled Bounce, Dodge, Snake, Jump, Tic-Tac-Toe, Race, Invaders and Reversi, generally have 4 sections:

1. The initial step by step game setup with lots of direction and code snippets;

2. The identification of problems and hints, then guidelines, demonstrating how to solve the issues;

3. Help with additional functionality such as start screens, timers, lives remaining, game over displays and other bells and whistles that students might like to include;

4. Suggestions about how the games might be further developed.

Students may work in a free coding website or your own installation. Full solutions are offered for the first 3 sections then the last is completely open ended; students can take any of these games as far as they like.

198 pages of tasks and solutions, plus links to working versions on the web.

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