Jason R Briggs

Feng writes:

I bought a chinese version of your book. when i tried the paddle ball at this step: ‘Bounce (example 4) - ball moving up and down’ at the first part of the code, you add a line tk.update(). I cannot see why this is *necessary, since there are no balls moving at all. Then, i com...

So I totally would have watched more than one series of Downton Abbey if I’d realised the Star Wars connection…

Hayden B writes:

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...

Femi A writes:

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...

Xing Y writes:

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):

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...