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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About this book | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Installing Python | |
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| Starting Python with IDLE | |
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| Instructions, please | |
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| Interacting with Python | |
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| Time to program | |
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| Running your first program | |
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| If something goes wrong | |
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| Your second program | |
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| Remember This-Memory and Variables | |
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| Input, processing, output | |
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| Names | |
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| What's in a name? | |
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| Numbers and strings | |
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| How "variable" are they? | |
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| The new me | |
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| Basic Math | |
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| The four basic operations | |
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| Operators | |
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| Order of operations | |
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| Two more operators | |
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| Really big and really small | |
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| Types of Data | |
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| Changing types | |
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| Getting more information: type() | |
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| Type-conversion errors | |
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| Using type conversions | |
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| Input | |
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| raw_input () | |
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| The print command and the comma | |
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| Inputting numbers | |
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| Input from the Web | |
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| GUIs-Graphical User Interfaces | |
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| What's a GUI? | |
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| Our first GUI | |
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| GUI input | |
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| Pick your flavor | |
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| The number-guessing game ... again | |
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| Other GUI pieces | |
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| Decisions, Decisions | |
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| Testing, testing | |
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| Indenting | |
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| Am I seeing double? | |
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| Other kinds of tests | |
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| What happens if the test is false? | |
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| Testing for more than one condition | |
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| Using "and" | |
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| Using "or" | |
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| Using "not" | |
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| Loop the Loop | |
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| Counting loops | |
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| Using a counting loop | |
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| A shortcut-range () | |
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| A matter of style-loop variable names | |
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| Counting by steps | |
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| Counting without numbers | |
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| While we're on the subject ... | |
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| Bailing out of a loop-break and continue | |
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| Just for You-Comments | |
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| Adding comments | |
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| Single-line comments | |
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| End-of-line comments | |
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| Multiline comments | |
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| Commenting style | |
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| Commenting out | |
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| Game Time | |
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| Skier | |
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| Nested and Variable Loops | |
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| Nested loops | |
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| Variable loops | |
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| Variable nested loops | |
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| Even more variable nested loops | |
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| Using nested loops | |
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| Collecting Things Together-Lists | |
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| What's a list? | |
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| Creating a list | |
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| Adding things to a list | |
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| What's the dot? | |
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| Lists can hold anything | |
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| Getting items from a list | |
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| "Slicing" a list | |
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| Modifying items | |
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| Other ways of adding to a list | |
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| Deleting from a list | |
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| Searching a list | |
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| Looping through a list | |
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| Sorting lists | |
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| Mutable and immutable | |
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| Lists of lists: tables of data | |
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| Functions | |
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| Functions-the building blocks | |
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| Calling a function | |
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| Passing arguments to a function | |
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| Functions with more than one argument | |
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| Functions that return a value | |
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| Variable scope | |
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| Forcing a global | |
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| A bit of advice on naming variables | |
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| Objects | |
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| Objects in the real world | |
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| Objects in Python | |
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| Object = attributes + methods | |
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| What's the dot? | |
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| Creating objects | |
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| An example class-HotDog | |
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| Hiding the data | |
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| Polymorphism and inheritance | |
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| Thinking ahead | |
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| Modules | |
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| What's a module? | |
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| Why use modules? | |
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| Buckets of blocks | |
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| How do we create modules? | |
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| How do we use modules? | |
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| Namespaces | |
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| Standard modules | |
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| Graphics | |
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| Getting some help-Pygame | |
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| A Pygame window | |
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| Drawing in the window | |
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| Individual pixels | |
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| Images | |
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| Let's get moving! | |
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| Animation | |
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| Smoother animation | |
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| Bouncing the ball | |
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| Wrapping the ball | |
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| Sprites and Collision Detection | |
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| Sprites | |
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| Bump! Collision detection | |
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| Counting time | |
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| A New Kind of Input-Events | |
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| Events | |
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| Keyboard events | |
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| Mouse events | |
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| Timer events | |
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| Time for another game-PyPong | |
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| Sound | |
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| More help from Pygame-mixer | |
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| Making sounds versus playing sounds | |
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| Playing sounds | |
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| Controlling volume | |
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| Repeating music | |
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| Adding sounds to PyPong | |
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| More wacky sounds | |
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| Adding music to PyPong | |
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| More GUIs | |
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| Working with PythonCard | |
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| Components | |
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| Making our GUI do something | |
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| The return of event handlers | |
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| Moving the button | |
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| More useful GUIs | |
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| TempGUI | |
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| What's on the menu? | |
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| Print Formatting and Strings | |
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| New lines | |
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| Horizontal spacing-tabs | |
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| Inserting variables in strings | |
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| Number formatting | |
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| Strings 'n' things | |
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| File Input and Output | |
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| What's a file? | |
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| Filenames | |
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| File locations | |
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| Opening a file | |
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| Reading a file | |
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| Text files and binary files | |
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| Writing to a file | |
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| Saving your stuff in files: pickle | |
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| Game time again-Hangman | |
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| Take a Chance-Randomness | |
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| What's randomness? | |
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| Rolling the dice | |
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| Creating a deck of cards | |
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| Crazy Eights | |
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| Computer Simulations | |
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| Modeling the real world | |
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| Lunar Lander | |
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| Keeping time | |
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| Time objects | |
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| Saving time to a file | |
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| Virtual Pet | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| General programming | |
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| Python | |
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| Game programming and Pygame | |
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| Other Python stuff | |
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| Look around | |
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| Variable Naming Rules | |
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| Answers to Self-Test Questions | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Remember This-Memory and Variables | |
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| Basic Math | |
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| Types of Data | |
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| Input | |
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| GUIs-Graphical User Interfaces | |
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| Decisions, Decisions | |
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| Loop the Loop | |
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| Just for You-Comments | |
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| Game Time | |
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| Nested and Variable Loops | |
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| Collecting Things Together-Lists | |
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| Functions | |
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| Objects | |
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| Modules | |
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| Graphics | |
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| Sprites and Collision Detection | |
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| A New Kind of Input-Events | |
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| Sound | |
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| More GUIs | |
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| Print Formatting and Strings | |
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| File Input and Output | |
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| Take a Chance-Randomness | |
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| Computer Simulations | |
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| Index | |