Learn Python with Arcade Academy

Learn how to create 2D video games! As part of this course we’ll also be learning all the standard topics of first-semester college course. But, without all the boredom of those “other” college courses.

• Chapters
  • Foreword - Why Learn Programming?
  • 1   Understanding and Setting Up Your System
  • 2   How to Draw with Your Computer
  • 3   Drawing with Functions
  • 4   Quiz Games and If Statements
  • 5   Guessing Games with Random Numbers and Loops
  • 6   Advanced Looping
  • 7   Introduction to Lists
  • 8   Introduction to Classes
  • 9   Classes, Animation and User Control
  • 10   Sound Effects
  • 11   Sprites
  • 12   Review
  • 13   Sprites and Walls
  • 14   Libraries and Modules
  • 15   Searching
  • 16   Array-Backed Grids
  • 17   Platformers
  • 18   Sorting
  • 19   Exceptions
  • 20   Recursion
  • Appendix: Selecting Python
• Labs
  • Lab 1: First Program
  • Lab 2: Draw a Picture
  • Lab 3: Drawing with Functions
  • Lab 4: Camel
  • Lab 5: Loopy Lab
  • Lab 6: Text Adventure
  • Lab 7: User Control
  • Lab 8: Sprites
  • Lab 9: Sprites and Walls
  • Lab 10: Spell Check
  • Lab 11: Array-Backed Grids
  • Lab 12: Final Lab
  • Quantitative Reasoning Reflection