Author: Dean Belfield

Break Into Program

One of the new things I’m doing in my corner at Cheadle CoderDojo is games programming in Python, to stretch some of our young programmers who are looking for something a little more challenging...

Basics – Set up PyGame

PyGame is our preferred library for developing games and multimedia applications in Python, and it couldn’t be easier to set it up. First, make sure that you’ve got the latest version of Python installed...

Basics – Set up Python

It helps to be prepared… And to make sure that you make the most of your time with us, we’ve got this helpful guide on how to set Python up the way we like,...

Break Into Program – Space Invaders

During CoderDojo #20 we looked at programming Space Invaders in Python, using the excellent PyGame library. Here’s the finished code. If you want to progress this further, I’d look at: Added scoring Animate the...