Posted by Al Sweigart in misc
It can be difficult to see how other number systems (such as binary and hexadecimal) work since they have a different amount of numerals than the ten numerals of decimal. But imagine that you are counting in these number systems using an old-fashioned analog odometer that has a different amount of numerals for each digit.
Posted by Al Sweigart in misc
This is a continuation of Part 1.
Posted by Al Sweigart in misc
In this blog post, I’m taking a game off of Pygame.org and going through it to make it more readable and extend its functionality.
Posted by Al Sweigart in misc
Posted by Al Sweigart in misc
A text-style game is a common project for beginner programmers. These can be fun to do, but also require spending time up-front to design it is worthwhile. Before you start designing your own game, look at the design decisions of a few different text-style game genres.
Posted by Al Sweigart in misc
Posted by Al Sweigart in misc
My third book, Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python, is finished.
Posted by Al Sweigart in misc
Posted by Al Sweigart in misc
Hackety Hack was a project originally started by _why the lucky stiff to teach kids programming in Ruby. It often comes up in "I want to teach my kid programming" forum threads. So I downloaded Hackety Hack and decided to give it a try.
I found Hackety Hack to be frustrating and was very unimpressed with it, and do not recommend it as a way to teach programming to a beginner.
Posted by Al Sweigart in misc
I've created Python & Pygame script that lets you walk around the overworld map of the original Legend of Zelda game on the 8-bit Nintendo. There are no monsters or levels or items; it is simply a walking tour. The Link walking sprite animation is implemented by my Pyganim module.