The Big Book of Small Python Projects: 81 Easy Practice Programs

By: Al Sweigart

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Synopsis: Best-selling author Al Sweigart shows you how to easily build over 80 fun programs with minimal code and maximum creativity.If you&’ve mastered basic Python syntax and you&’re ready to start writing programs, you&’ll find The Big Book of Small Python Projects both enlightening and fun. This collection of 81 Python projects will have you making digital art, games, animations, counting pro- grams, and more right away. Once you see how the code works, you&’ll practice re-creating the programs and experiment by adding your own custom touches. These simple, text-based programs are 256 lines of code or less. And whether it&’s a vintage screensaver, a snail-racing game, a clickbait headline generator, or animated strands of DNA, each project is designed to be self-contained so you can easily share it online. You&’ll create:• Hangman, Blackjack, and other games to play against your friends or the computer• Simulations of a forest fire, a million dice rolls, and a Japanese abacus• Animations like a virtual fish tank, a rotating cube, and a bouncing DVD logo screensaver• A first-person 3D maze game• Encryption programs that use ciphers like ROT13 and Vigenère to conceal text If you&’re tired of standard step-by-step tutorials, you&’ll love the learn-by-doing approach of The Big Book of Small Python Projects. It&’s proof that good things come in small programs!