My new programming book, the Recursive Book of Recursion, is released in August 2022. The book covers several classic recursive algorithms and breaks down recursion's fearsome reputation as a programming technique. The book has the code for its numerous programs in both Python and JavaScript. When you buy it direct from the publisher, No Starch Press, you'll receive a DRM-free ebook copy with your print book order.

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My new book, The Big Book of Small Python Projects, is now available from No Starch Press. It's free to read online under a Creative Commons license. This book contains 81 small but complete programming projects written in Python. These projects are designed to help new programmers who have learned the basics see what real programs "look like". These aren't code snippets, but actual, full programs that you can run. At the same time, they are small enough so that their source code is easy to understand.

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Information about how to sign up for my Python course on Udemy for free or at a discounted rate.

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Here are all the new additions and updates in the second edition.

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For the last few months I've been putting together an online course that follows my latest (and free) book, "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python". It is now available.

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I've written an article for OpenSource.com called APIs, not apps: What the future will be like when everyone can code, where I write about a coming future where programming ability is in the hands of everyone.

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The 3rd edition of "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" is now available.

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I've organized a large collection of free and non-free books on a new part of this site: The Invent with Python Bookshelf.

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This blog post is those still new to programming and have probably heard about "object-oriented programming", "OOP", "classes", "inheritance/encapsulation/polymorphism", and other computer science terms but still don't get what exactly OOP is used for. In this post I'll explain why OOP is used and how it makes coding easier.

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I've created a series of video screencast tutorials for Scratch. Scratch is a block-based programming environment from MIT. It is a programming education toy that is made for kids between the ages of 8 and 16. The screencasts can be found at InventWithScratch.com

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My third book, Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python, is finished.

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I've completed my next book, which focuses on the Pygame library and making graphical games in Python.

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Download pyganim.py and example programs. (Works on both Python 2 and 3.)

Details at http://inventwithpython.com/pyganim/

Pyganim is a module that you can import into your Pygame games to handle sprite animation.

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Here's the introductory chapter to my next book on Python and Pygame. It assumes you have some Python and programming experience (if you don't, give a look to Invent with Python), and offers a quick view of all of the major parts of Pygame.

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Yuanle Qiu has started translating the "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" into Chinese.

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I've created a web version of the Caesar Cipher wheel using JQuery and CSS sprites.

JavaScript Cipher Wheel

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I've decided to make the incomplete rough drafts of my next two Python books available.

Become a Codebreaker with Python

Making Graphical Games with Pygame

The emphasis is on "rough" and "incomplete", but I thought it would be better to give a preview of the direction I was going. These books are also available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license like the first "Invent with Python" book.

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I'd just like to announce that "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" has just sold its 1000th hard copy since it's gone on sale last May.

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