Making a Game of IT

We had 6 teams of students each create a video game using pygame, find them here!

Find a schedule for the Making a Game of IT programming camp here.

Camping

Camper-submitted examples here!

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• Day 1 (Monday) - Introduction to Python
  • Introductions & Getting Started
    • Getting Started
  • Python - the very basics
    • Comments in Python
    • Printing to the screen
    • What is a variable?
    • Python can be used as a glorified calculator
    • Getting user input
    • Working with strings
    • Basics - Challenges
    • Basics - Example code
  • Python - conditionals and loops
    • Boolean Operators
    • if, elif, and else
    • while and break
    • for and range
    • Number Guessing Game
      • Number guessing game solution
    • Rock paper scissors
      • Rock paper scissors solution
  • Python - data structures
    • Lists
    • Dictionaries
    • Data structures - example games
      • World guessing game
        • Word guessing game solution
      • Simon Says
        • Simon says solution

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• Day 2 (Tuesday) - Introduction to Pygame
  • Pygame - Graphics
    • Hello, Rectangle
    • Getting in Shape
    • The Cat’s Meow
  • Pygame - Animation
  • Pygame - Controls
    • The Big Event
    • Keyed Up
    • Mousing Around
  • Pygame - Text
  • Pygame - Collisions
  • Putting it all together
    • Mouse pew pew shooter
    • Keyboard pew pew shooter
    • Keyboard multi-direction pew pew shooter

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• Day 3 (Wednesday) - Advanced Pygame
  • Pygame - Text, Buttons, and Menus
    • Text
    • Buttons
    • Menus
  • Pygame - Music and sound effects
  • Pygame - High-level structure

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• Day 4 (Thusday) - Game design
  • Functions
  • Jumping around (platforming)
  • Angle shooting
  • Interacting with an NPC

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More Resources

• Python v3.7 documentation
• pygame documentation
• Thonny
• Invent with Python’s ‘Making Games with Python and Pygame’
  • pdf of associated book

Guest experts - Emily and Elana

• Emily’s web-based cancer model!
• Elana’s Safe Space game!

Instructor Information

• Dr. Josh Nahum
• Matthew Andres Moreno
• Alexander Lalejini (email: lalejini@msu.edu)