Big book of small python projects (No Starch Press,US)

Best-selling author Al Sweigart shows you how to easily build over 80 fun programs with minimal code and maximum creativity.If you ve mastered basic Python syntax and you re ready to start writing programs, you ll find The Big Book of Small Python Projects both enlightening and fun. This collection of 81 Python projects will have you making digital art, games, animations, counting pro- grams, and more right away. Once you see how the code works, you ll practice re-creating the programs and experiment aby adding your own custom touches. These simple, text-based programs are 256 lines of code or less. And whether it s a vintage screensaver, a snail-racing game, a clickbait headline generator, or animated strands of DNA, each project is designed to be self-contained so you can easily share it online. You ll create: Hangman, Blackjack, and other games to play against your friends or the computer Simulations of a forest fire, a million dice rolls, and a Japanese abacus Animations like a virtual fish tank, a rotating cube, and a bouncing DVD logo screensaver A first-person 3D maze game Encryption programs that use ciphers like ROT13 and Vigenère to conceal text If you re tired of standard step-by-step tutorials, you ll love the learn-by-doing approach of The Big Book of Small Python Projects. It s proof that good things come in small programs!