Take inspiration from the golden age of video games and write your own modern classics.Learn the stories behind the seminal video games of the 1970s and 1980s, and create your own games inspired by them, using Python, Pygame Zero, and an IDE. In Code the Classics Volume I, readers will find:Game design tips and tricks from the mastersExpanded Python and Pygame Zero tutorialsGitHub tutorial for working with example code

Code your own modern versions of retro classics inspired by the greatest video games of the 1980s.Code the Classics Volume II examines the seminal video games of the 1980s and shows you how to create your own games, using Python, Pygame Zero, and an IDE.Full of game design tips and tricks from the masters, the book breaks down the fundamental tasks needed for every game: display images, play sound effects, and receive inputs from the keyboard or a ...

Learning to code your own shoot-'em-up game is infinitely more satisfying than beating any end-of-level boss.This essential guide teaches how to develop games with Python and Pygame. Gain a better understanding of the games you play, and build the skills to create games of your own, including how to:Create shapes and pathsMove sprites and detect collisionsHandle keyboard, mouse, and gamepad inputAdd sound and music

"Second Star to the right and straight on 'till morning'", she had muttered, and the figure had laughed as its slender fingers enclosed her small hand and pulled her gently to her feet. "Yes," it agreed. "Come, little Wendy-Bird"...Heidi was always told that she had an old soul for her age, so when she awakes and finds herself and other children thrown into a world of enchantment and fear, she knows she needs to get home, no matter the consequences.Leading a group ...

Did you know that teenagers do not know as much as they let on? As a matter of fact, they have learned from the best; adults who also know everything! The big difference in "faking" this quality is that adults do not have to show off in front of classmates daily to seem smart! High school is a crazy, hormonal driven, jungle where daily it's about survival to fit in, which most often involves a quick wit, a positive attitude or pouty face, and of course (according to them) Crocs in tons of ...

From lonely housewife to hot girl summer! Tracey leaves her husband after ten years of a financially and emotionally abusive marriage. Using the body care company she created to fund her future, she moves out of the family home in search of a new independent life. She soon realizes it's not as easy as she thought it was going to be at 40 with two children in tow. Lost and confused as a global shutdown looms over Tracey's already chaotic life, she dives into the world of online dating, gett...

Practical resources designed to help language educators apply the latest research and most effective pedagogical methods to classroom pronunciation instructionIn Second Language Pronunciation: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Teaching, a team of distinguished researchers and educators delivers an incisive and practical approach to evidence-based pronunciation instruction in second language classrooms. Developed for language teachers who want to incorp...

Tax Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the ways how tax policy can is used solve environmental problems throughout the world, using a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach. Environmental taxation involves using taxes to impose a cost on environmentally harmful activities or tax subsidies to provide preferred tax treatment to more sustainable alternatives to those harmful activities. This book pr...

This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior, the police-like state found in many schools throughout the country, and the introduction of youth into the criminal justice system at an early age. The school-to-prison pipeline negatively and dis...

Sovereign Debt and Credit Rating Bias rejects the notion that credit rating agencies' rigorous and transparent determination of ratings leaves no room for bias, and debunks the myth that the value CRAs place on their reputational capital precludes prolonged biases. To determine the extent of CRAs' biased actions, Tennant and Tracey apply a rigorous methodology to a well-established economic model of the determinants of sovereign debt quality. They present strong evidence of bias against po...

This Handbook is a comprehensive volume outlining the foremost issues regarding research and teaching of second language speaking, examining such diverse topics as cognitive processing, articulation, knowledge of pragmatics, instruction in sub-components of speaking (e.g., grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary) and the attrition of the first language. Outstanding academics have contributed chapters to provide an integrated and inclusive perspective on oral language skills. Specia...

Theologies of sex within Christianity vary depending on the sect, denomination, and/or general interpretation of related scriptures. Because so much of that theology and its practice has historically had a patriarchal bent, women have often not had a voice when it comes to Christian perspectives on sex and sexuality. The voices of women have either been left out of the discussion entirely or ideals about their bodies and experiences with sex have been depicted and determined as “good” or “...