Writings from the author of Automate the Boring Stuff.
Mon 03 January 2011 Al Sweigart
Welcome to the Code Comments Tutorial for Flippy, an Othello clone. Code Comments is a series of simple games with detailed comments in the source code, so you can see how the game works.
Fri 03 December 2010 Al Sweigart
Thu 18 November 2010 Al Sweigart
Welcome to the Code Comments Tutorial for Tetromino, a Tetris clone. Code Comments is a series of simple games with detailed comments in the source code, so you can see how the game works.
Fri 29 October 2010 Al Sweigart
Welcome to the Code Comments Tutorial for Snakey, a Nibbles clone. Code Comments is a series of simple games with detailed comments in the source code, so you can see how the game works.
Fri 08 October 2010 Al Sweigart
Welcome to the Code Comments Tutorial for Slide Puzzle. Code Comments is a series of simple games with detailed comments in the source code, so you can see how the game works.
Thu 30 September 2010 Al Sweigart
Welcome to the Code Comments Tutorial for Simulate (A "Simon" clone.) Code Comments is a series of simple games with detailed comments in the source code, so you can see how the game works.
Tue 28 September 2010 Al Sweigart
Welcome to the Code Comments Tutorial for Memory. Code Comments is a series of simple games with detailed comments in the source code, so you can see how the game works.
Mon 27 September 2010 Al Sweigart
Thu 09 September 2010 Al Sweigart
Welcome to the Code Comments Tutorial for Ink Spill. Code Comments is a series of simple games with detailed comments in the source code, so you can see how the game works.
Wed 01 September 2010 Al Sweigart
I've scoured the web for some decent tutorials for Pygame, one of the best game engines for Python out there. Here's what I've found, ordered by (in my opinion) quality.
Fri 25 June 2010 Al Sweigart
Source code: gorillas.py
An entire generation of people remember the Gorilla.BAS game that came with Qbasic, where gorillas on top of buildings threw exploding bananas at each other. This is a Python remake of that game using the Pygame game engine, and is fairly heavily commented so you can explore the source.
Thu 08 April 2010 Al Sweigart
I'm currently doing a very slow and thorough read through of the book to weed out the last of the typos, errors, and ambiguous statements in the book.
Fri 26 February 2010 Al Sweigart
I've received a proof copy of the book from CreateSpace.com a few weeks ago...
Tue 05 January 2010 Al Sweigart
Version 9 of the PDF is available, which includes several typo corrections and a completed table of contents.
Tue 24 November 2009 Al Sweigart
Mon 02 November 2009 Al Sweigart
From 2008 to 2009, I wrote a book called “Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python” ( http://inventwithpython.com ) which guides young adults and complete beginners through learning how to program in the Python language. I’ve just completed the second edition of the book, which has been an exhausting amount of work. Looking back over it, I realized that it could have been a much less exhausting experience if I had made some simple preparations.
Thu 29 October 2009 Al Sweigart
Here's all the new stuff that went into the second edition of "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python".