Captain Code: Unleash Your Coding Superpower with Python

Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. About This eBook
3. Title Page
4. Copyright Page
5. Pearson’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
6. Contents at a Glance
7. Contents
8. Register Your Book
9. Acknowledgments
10. About the Authors
11. Introduction
    1. What’s in This Book
    2. Watch Out for These
    3. Getting Help
12. Figure Credits
13. Part I: It’s All Fun and Games
    1. Chapter 1. Getting Started
       1. Understanding Computer Programming
       2. Setting Things Up
       3. Writing Your First Python Program
       4. Summary
    2. Chapter 2. Mad Libs
       1. Understanding Functions
       2. Using Variables
       3. Playing Mad Libs
       4. Summary
    3. Chapter 3. Roll the Dice
       1. Using Libraries
       2. “3” Is Not 3
       3. Commenting Your Code
       4. One Die, Two Dice
       5. Summary
    4. Chapter 4. Calculate the Day
       1. Working with Dates
       2. Making Decisions
       3. Beating the Mathematician
       4. Summary
    5. Chapter 5. Rock Paper Scissors
       1. More Strings
       2. Game Time
       3. Summary
    6. Chapter 6. Secret Codes
       1. Lists
       2. Loop-de-Loop
       3. Cracking the Code
       4. Summary
    7. Chapter 7. Guess the Number
       1. Conditional Loops
       2. Game Time
       3. Summary
    8. Chapter 8. Becoming a Coder
       1. How Coders Code
       2. Game Components
       3. Summary
    9. Chapter 9. Hangman
       1. Game Time
       2. So How Does It Work?
       3. Summary
    10. Chapter 10. Keep Going
        1. Birthday Countdown
        2. Tip Calculator
        3. Password Generator
        4. Summary
14. Part II: On An Adventure
    1. Chapter 11. Getting Func-ky
       1. Functions Revisited
       2. Writing Your Own Functions
       3. Summary
    2. Chapter 12. Exploring
       1. Game Concept
       2. Game Time
       3. Test It
       4. Summary
    3. Chapter 13. Cleanup Time
       1. Optimizing Your Code
       2. String Externalization
       3. Summary
    4. Chapter 14. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refactor
       1. Understanding Refactoring
       2. Creating a User Choice Component
       3. Summary
    5. Chapter 15. Carrying (and Using) Stuff
       1. Planning the Inventory System
       2. The Inventory System
       3. Summary
    6. Chapter 16. Keeping It Classy
       1. The Player System
       2. Creating a Player Class
       3. Using Our New Class
       4. Summary
    7. Chapter 17. Color Your World
       1. Installing Third-Party Libraries
       2. Using Colorama
       3. Summary
    8. Chapter 18. Keep Going
       1. Health and Lives
       2. Shopping for Items
       3. Random Events
       4. Battling Enemies
       5. Saving and Restoring
       6. Summary
15. Part III: Racing Around
    1. Chapter 19. Crazy Driver
       1. Introducing Pygame
       2. Prepping the Game
       3. Getting Started
       4. The Game Loop
       5. Summary
    2. Chapter 20. Image-ine the Possibilities
       1. Files and Folders
       2. Setting the Background
       3. Placing the Cars
       4. Summary
    3. Chapter 21. We Like to Move It
       1. Moving the Enemy
       2. Moving the Player
       3. Summary
    4. Chapter 22. Crash, Bang, Boom
       1. You Crashed, Game Over
       2. Tracking Score
       3. Increasing Difficulty
       4. Summary
    5. Chapter 23. Finishing Touches
       1. Game Over Revisited
       2. Pause
       3. Varying Enemies
       4. Ice Cubes
       5. Summary
    6. Chapter 24. Keep Going
       1. Splash Screen
       2. Scores and High Scores
       3. Oil Slick
       4. Multiple Enemies
       5. And Then…
       6. Summary
16. What Next?
    1. There’s a Lot More to Python
    2. Web Development
    3. Mobile App Development
    4. Game Development
    5. And Then…
17. Index
18. Code Snippets