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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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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Personally I would have preferred properly building this from scratch instead of copy-pasting the code, but this is a cool application of the OOP techniques we have learned
Ryan Wingfield
United Kingdom
really like this chapter !
Mario Dellagiacoma
Luxembourg
Fun course to show you another use-case for python
Wayne Cooper
Bahamas
gut
Petr Konopa
Czechia
This course was REALLY good! It really stretched my understanding, it won't hold your hand - I was surprised at every step that what I wrote actually worked!
Sam
Stoke on Trent - the centre of the universe
kinda convoluted and not as straightforward as the other modules... though I guess it does say that documentation should be read and perhaps this is expected...
nicholas tobias
Indonesia
I was skeptical at first with the code pre-made to be pasted, but it ended up as a good introduction to pygame and a nice little project
Loic LL
France
This course just hit the spot with its difficulty level - just enough for you to scratch your head trying to remember stuff on your own, but easy enough to glide through it without any major hic ups and using hints/chat with Boots/Spellbook/Lessons, yet, as it seems to me, covering all of the material from OOP in python course. Really liked this one!
Robert Johnson
Nowhere
it was had but really enjoyable much easier than book bot!
Sami Gilham
United States
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