Table of Contents

• Welcome to Becoming Pygamer!
  • Looking for PyCharm how-to?
  • License
  • Found a Bug?
• Asking for help
  • Where to ask for help?
  • What are you trying to do?
  • How are you trying to do that?
  • Error messages - Tracebacks
  • Problems with output
• Introduction to command-line
  • Windows
• First steps
  • Python
  • Installation
  • Install Python: Windows
  • Verification
  • Pipenv
  • Code editor
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Gedit
  • Sublime Text 3
  • Atom
  • Why are we installing a code editor?
• Introduction to Python
  • Python prompt
  • Your very first Python command
  • Strings
  • Quotes and apostrophes
  • Summary
  • Errors
  • Variables
  • The print function
  • Lists
  • Dictionaries
  • Summary
  • Comparing things
  • Boolean
  • Save it!
  • Changing directory: Windows
  • If … elif … else
  • What if a condition isn’t True?
  • Comments
  • Summary
  • Your own functions!
  • Loops
  • Summary
• Introduction to Pygame
  • Creating workspace
  • Creating workspace: Windows
  • Pygame installation
  • Verification
  • Initialization and a gameloop
  • Events
  • Summary
  • Surfaces
  • Rects
  • Blitting
  • Summary
• Moving Things
  • A new notation
  • Moving object theory
  • User input
  • Initial program
  • Moving object with keys
  • Moving object with mouse click
  • Following the mouse
  • Vector math illustrated
  • Summary
• Collisions
  • Point collision
  • Colliding to another rect
  • Summary
• Sprites
  • Sprites without classes
  • Sprites with classes
  • Sprites with pygame.sprite
  • Summary
• Tips and tricks
  • 1. Frame rate limiting
  • 2. Nested event loops
  • 3. Inputbox
  • 4. Paths
  • 5. Loading images
  • 6. Fonts
• PyCharm
  • A word of warning
  • Preparations
  • Setting up PyCharm