Python 102: Developing a text-based pac-man game
Enhance your Python skills with this interactive Python 102 course. Learn to implement a text-based pac-game from scratch, covering key language constructs, data structures, automated testing, and problem-solving. Follow along with live coding sessions, understand mistakes, and gain hands-on experience. Perfect for beginner Python developers looking to reinforce their programming skills.
What you’ll learn
- Get more fluent with Python through a series of coding lectures
- Understand and use the main language constructors, such as ifs, for and while loops
- Develop and manipulate more complex data structures to support the game
- Learn the basics of automated testing
- Understand how a professional programmers thinks when programming
Did you just learn how to program in Python and needs to practice a bit more? Are you looking for some mildly complex project to challenge your skills? In this Python 102 course, we’ll implement a text-based pac-game together, from scratch. Throughout the videos, we’ll go together through all the challenges of implementing a game (how to design the map, how to move the characters, how to understand that the game is over) while exercising all the basics of the Python language.
This entire course is basically a live coding session. You will see:
How to create simple data structures to store things like the map and game points
How to write complex ifs to take the different game decisions
How to properly use loops, e.g., to control the main game loop
How to get data from the keyboard and react to it
How to test your program using basic automated unit testing
How to make mistakes, understand why your program is failing, and how to learn from the mistakes
I speak out loud every step I take, including my mistakes. In the end of every video, you are asked to implement the pac-man yourself. Did you get lost? No worries, you can find the source code of the game at every point in time in the resources of the course.
If you are looking for a nice way to reinforce your recently acquired Python skills, this is the course for you!
Who this course is for:
- Beginner Python developers that want to get more fluent with programming
