Serhii writes (excerpted from two emails):
I teach programming lessons for the pupils. We try to do restart button for the “Bounce” as it follows: jasonrbriggs.com/journal/2014/09/03/restarting-the-game.html ...there is a problem in “command=restart”.
If I run your code I get the followi...
Continue reading...Chris K writes (excerpted):
Continue reading...I'm teaching myself and home educating my three young daughters at the same time. Just a little bit every day (excepting Sunday which is entirely reserved for pancakes and not inter-computery-things) . Thank you for providing the opportunity for me to introduce the ...
Usually on Amazon, we see Python for Kids knock-offs which are an exact copy of the book, with cruddy printing and/or binding. No Starch have a clever binding which allows books to open flat, without falling apart after reading a couple of chapters (clever enough that a few people thought it was...
Continue reading...Lou O writes:
Continue reading...Hi Jason, Read a few good reviews of your book on Amazon. One of the reviews pointed out “The explanation of String formatting needs to be updated. We don’t do embedded values using %s anymore. I recommend skipping the chapters on Turtle Graphics and tkinter. The introductory...
Marzena writes:
Continue reading...I’m writing to you because neither me nor my 11-year old daughter with whom we’re learning Python can figure out where the problem is. We get the following error:
================ RESTART: C:/Users/Enarpol/Desktop/brajan.py ================
Traceback (most recent call last):
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Alex Z writes (edited):
Continue reading...I’m playing with the last chapter game, cf. the stickmangame7.py file. I’m a little confused about how the key presses are expected *to cause the character [to] move.
If the player hits the right or left key, the character starts moving but keeps moving and doesn’t sto...
Jobakhan writes (edited):
Continue reading...Using this code import sys
def moon_weight(): print(’Please enter your current Earth weight’)
weight = float(sys.stdin.readline())
print(’Please enter the amount your weight might increase each year’)
increase = float(sys.stdin.readline())
print...
Lucia C writes:
I am currently reading your book but do not have access to a computer. I do however have my Ipad pro.
There is an app available called Pythonista 3, are you familiar with this app and would you recomend it to follow your book?
Unfortunately, Pythonista has it’s own custom U...
Continue reading...Tom writes (excerpted):
Continue reading...I’m learning Python from your book and I’m finding it a great resource. However, I’m at the point where I’m creating the StickMan game and I’m having issues. I’m using an iMac running MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 The version of GIMP that I downloaded is 2.8.18. Specifically, ...
