Build Asteroids using Python and Pygame
Make a real arcade game while practicing OOP, vectors, collision detection, and game loops.
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Sarah Schulte
Sarah is an engineer and instructor at Boot.dev. She has been obsessed with making the computer do the thing since the late 2000s. Her career has been a complicated journey from embedded software and game development to mobile and web development. She strives to know a little bit about everything (and a lot about bash).
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What you'll learn in this Python course
Build a clone of the classic Asteroids game using Pygame and object-oriented programming concepts. This guided project will help you understand how to use Pygame to create a game loop, handle user input, and manage game state. You'll also learn how to use object-oriented programming to create game objects and manage their interactions.
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Really enjoyed being able to SEE and INTERACT with the fruits of my coding labour. The course brings together many of the OOP concepts in a hands-on way that is really rewarding.
Dr. Wynand J. Louw
South Africa
Amazing course, I got a lot of hands-on experience. I strongly suggest to take a minute to, at least, look at the code given so you can think about what you're doing
Felipe
Chile
haha asteroids go pew pew
SmittyGamer
United States
I learned a lot about programming and coding, and much of what was done in previous sections really clicked with this course.
Melissa Greathouse
United States
nice
Le Git
Brazil
Easy to follow and complete. It's also fun!
Richard Martin
Australia
i did it.. my first game.. i want to cry
Flying Chungus
Malaysia
So much fun! was able to use the python skills I learned and apply them directly to an awesome project
Omega Rae
United States
I really had fun building this little app. If you are a beginner you will probably run into some bugs. Fixing those and solving problem you encounter is exactly the practice you need now. For intermediate and expert level programmers, this is a nice way to keep in touch with "real" programming and forgeting all that AI completion for a moment.
vintschi
Austria
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