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free python books A very nice website about free python books: pythonbooks.revolunet.com Some  books are only free to look at / to download, but some books are properly creative commons licensed. ThePythonGameBook.com itself is not (yet) listed there, but i like the … Continue reading →

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Think Python

Posted on 2013-01-22 by

Good news, everyone: there is a nice, creative-commons licensed ( cc-by-nc ) book about python, even with a python3 version: Think Python: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/. From the author of “How to think like a computer scientist”, Allen B. Downey. He initially wrote … Continue reading →

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free python3 book

Posted on 2013-01-03 by

Another free python3 tutorial book is online: http://beastie.cs.ua.edu/cs150/book/index.html

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new pages

Posted on 2010-04-13 by

Found time to work on new sites (wiki pages) of my Python Game Book. Have lot’s of ideas for re-working already existing pages and improving nearly all code examples. Click on the images to go directly to the new pages.

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Book presentation: computer science for Kids by André Lessa

Posted on 2010-03-21 by

I was so impressed by this free book from André Lessa that i did a promo video for him. His code examples are abstract, but he use python syntax. André’s Homepage: http://www.lesaaworld.com/kids More Videos (mostly in german language) can be … Continue reading →

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First public reading from The Python Game Book

Posted on 2010-01-23 by

Vienna, 17. Feb. 2010: The first public reading directly from The Python Game Book took place during my talk about programming with Pygame at a meeting of the PYUGAT (Python User Group Austria) in Vienna‘s famous hackerspace, the Metalab. My … Continue reading →

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code line by line discussion: better layout

Posted on 2009-10-11 by

Responding to critique from users of the german pythonforum i changed the layout of the code “line by line” discussion. The old layout (a table with comments left and the code lines right) was very ugly at low screen resolutions … Continue reading →

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pythongamebook part 2: first pygame examples uploaded

Posted on 2009-10-04 by

The good news: i uploaded the first set of pygame examples into The Python Game Book: http://www.spielend-programmieren.at/pythongamebook/doku.php?id=en:part2:step001 The bad news: i have not yet cleaned up several of the errors in part 1 (python). Also explaining text and code discussion … Continue reading →

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one page written

Posted on 2009-09-10 by

I can proudly announce that at least one page of my book is ready: http://www.spielend-programmieren.at/pythongamebook/doku.php?id=en:part1:step002 and several other pages are at least created, like the English start / overview page: http://www.spielend-programmieren.at/pythongamebook/doku.php?id=en:start Note that the url’s are not final, please do … Continue reading →

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why open source ?

Posted on 2009-08-30 by

Added some minor pages, the most recent is Why open-source and needs some proof-reading from an legal expert. Also i noted that my provider forward the url WWW.PYGAMEBOOK.COM inside an invisible frameset to the “real” url, meaning that it was … Continue reading →

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