Create a platformer game with Python 👾

🔸Arcade is an easy-to-learn Python library for creating 2D video games. It is ideal for beginning programmers, or programmers who want to create 2D games without learning a complex framework.

⚙️Installation
pip install arcade

🔗Arcade Academy Homepage
🔗In-depth guide

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Game Development with Pygame 📺

In this series, you will use pygame to learn the fundamentals of game development by creating 3 types of games: shoot 'em up, platformer and tile-based game.
Even though the playlist is a quite old (last updated on Dec 17, 2016), this is the most complete tutorial on the pygame library. I've used it to learn Python game development as a part of university research project last year, so I definitely recommend it.

1. Game Development 1-1: Getting Started with Pygame [YouTube]
2. Game Development 1-2: Working with Sprites [YouTube]
...
58. Tile-based game Part 22: Game Over [YouTube]

🔗Full YouTube playlist

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Build Your Website Quickly and Easily

🔸Flask is a popular Python web framework, designed to easily build web applications, with the ability to scale up to complex ones.

⚙️Installation
pip install Flask

It gives developers flexibility and is a more accessible framework for new developers since you can build a web application quickly using only a single Python file. Flask is also extensible and doesn’t force a particular directory structure or require complicated boilerplate code before getting started.

🔗Docs
🔗Official tutorial
🔗GitHub
🔗Compilation of Flask tutorials

#flask #web

Free Python online course by MIT 🐍

If you're looking for great free course to start your Python programming journey, "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python" by MIT (#2 university in global ranking) is definitely for you.

The goal of this course is to provide students with a brief introduction to many topics so they will have an idea of what is possible when they need to think about how to use computation to accomplish some goal later in their career.

You will learn:
▪️The Python programming language
▪️Some simple algorithms
▪️Testing and debugging
▪️Data structures

🔗Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python
🔗Intro (YouTube video)

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How to Measure Code Execution Time in Python?

The timeit module provides a simple way to time small bits of Python code. It has both a Command-Line Interface as well as a callable one. It avoids a number of common traps for measuring execution times.

To measure the execution time of a statement, simply use the timeit.timeit() function. It accepts the following input parameters:
▪️stmt – String containing the code snippets for your test case.
▪️setup – Initial code that will be executed once.
▪️timer – The timer instance. It is defaulted to time.perf_counter(), which returns a float.
▪️number – Number of executions to be carried out. The default value is 1,000,000.
▪️globals – Specifies a namespace in which to execute the code.

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70+ Python Project Ideas 💡

♦️Adding a side project or two to your portfolio can be a big plus if you don’t have much working experience yet, helping to convince the employer to hire you.

♦️In this article you'll find example projects with step-by-step instructions, tutorials and source code that will take you though building real-world Python projects from scratch.

👁Read the article

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Wikipedia

🔸Wikipedia is a Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia webpages.

⚙️Installation

pip install wikipedia

Yes, you can now import Wikipedia in Python using Wikipedia module. Use the incessant flow of knowledge with Python for daily needs. Search Wikipedia, get article summaries, get data like links and images from a page, and more.

🔗Docs
🔗GitHub

#wikipedia #parsing

Learning to program with Python 3 📺

If you want to deal with basics as little as possible and just jump into actual Python projects, you should try to learn Python with Introduction to Python 3 series by sentdex – one of the most popular Python content creator on YouTube. This series is aiming to help you quickly run through the basics and get started with your first Python project.

1. Introduction to Python 3 Programming Tutorial [YouTube]
2. Tuples, Strings, Loops [YouTube]
3. Lists & Tic Tac Toe Game [YouTube]
...
15. Conclusion [YouTube]

🔗Full playlist

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