Robin T writes (excerpted):
I am currently at chapter 14, i already made my first game called “Bounce”. When the game is over, i want the user to push a button or a mouse click to restart the game. But i don’t know how to do this.
Someone else asked a similar question a few years ago, so...
Continue reading...Hayden B writes:
Continue reading...I am trying to code the bouncing red ball in Chapter 13 but the animation is not working. *I have checked the code, and it makes sense, but I am getting these errors when I run:
RESTART: C:\Users\rf\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Files .py\paddleball.py Traceback...
Theodore M writes:
Continue reading...*Hello. Working in python with my daughter, but stuck on this error:
Python 3.6.4 (v3.6.4:d48ecebad5, Dec 18 2017, 21:07:28) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type “copyright”, “credits” or “license()” for more information. >>> import turtle Trace...
Femi A writes:
Continue reading...I just got your book: Python for kids and I’m excited to start reading it. I am 36 years old and I would like to learn computer programming. I figure python would be a good place to start. Is it possible to become an expert at python in 6 months with intensive efforts? And if ...
What’s a nice way to give a kid a limited amount of spending freedom, and letting them buy some things without being able to decimate your credit card? iTunes Voucher – seems reasonable right?
So… redeeming voucher… Enter Apple ID password. Okay. Use camera to enter code. That’s helpful. Plea...
Continue reading...Xing Y writes:
Continue reading...This is Xing Yanchao from the city of Qingdao, Shandong province, China, a big beautiful coastal city with 7 million citizens. I’m very interested in teaching kids to program, and plan to choose your book as the teaching material (In Chinese, \^_\^). *The kids may be between 8...
Robin L writes (excerpted):
Continue reading...I am trying to teach myself how to code and thought this was a good place to begin. I am having trouble with the “multiplying strings” section. I don’t know anyone else who codes so I am hoping that you are still available at this email. This is the *part about pri...
Haran R writes:
Continue reading...I tried out the code for the two games and have successfully run the first game (bounce). The second game however did not run like how i wished it to. I followed the book’s instructions to the letter, used the GIMP software to create the images, saved it in a directory and sa...
丁明 writes (edited for spelling):
In your book python for kids chapter 13, when I run the program, the python shell has a error I can’t understand. my python version 3.6.0. Thank you for your reply!!
I’m not sure if the Chinese edition has captured the text on page 199 of the English vers...
Continue reading...I’ve come across some uncorroborated reports that some of the instructions, or examples, in Python for Kids don’t work with Windows 10. Uncorroborated because it’s unfortunately nothing more than “it don’t work”. Not spectacularly useful, so I’ve finally gotten around to installing Windows 10 in V...
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