Pong, Python & Pygame 00 - Computerphile

In this mini-series, Dr Isaac Triguero walks us through creating a simple Pong-like game in Python, using the PyGame library.


This video was filmed by Sean Riley and Isaac Triguero and edited by Sean Riley.

[mastercilona]

Wow he just perfectly described my relationship with computer science within the first 30 seconds of the vid

[sneshpone]

I love the way Dr Triguero explains things, I would love more videos with him!

[willemvdk]

I love Python. Not just the language, but the entire ecosystem. It's awesome. Such a Swiss knife.

[VetsFleetNY]

Really looking forward to this series. You guys are so great at visualizing the behind the scenes mechanics of programming and I think this is incredibly useful for those who are more visual learners.

[luketurner]

2:50 so basically sideways Brick Breaker without the bricks?

[andrewwoodward]

Thanks. Look Forwards to the next videos.

[Pahis]

Just had to thank you for doing great job with the description box under the video. I wanted to watch the Pong and OOP video and the link was actually in there. Usually other channels only have generic text like twitter and stuff there. Just thought I'd say I appreciate the effort and give some positive feedback.

[Acceleronics]

Thank you for this series! I'm looking forward to the next episode.

[rafaelsanjuan]

Greetings from Granada Dr. Triguero, cool video. I'd heard of pygame before but I'll give it a chance now just to have fun programming some minigame on a weekend.

[patternwhisperer]

I actually got into cs because I thougt automata seemed cool.

[muB]

Guy 10 years ago: Yeah I like computer games and I wanna make a cool one.
Guy in real life: *becomes a professor.*

[MIKIEC]

Direction! Is it just me screaming at the screen "Direction!"?

[audiohutch]

I'm almost done creating a brick breaker game in Java. It has over 20 levels, powerups that fall from destroyed bricks, and a scoring system. My goal was to complete it within a couple days

[thebarnold]

I made pong in tkinter with the canvas, rectangles and my own collision detection. Oh how I wished i used pygame, fun project though!

[Toocrash]

I try to use Elementary OS.
That is not terminal, what should one use. What is the name of the programming environment?
How to install py game, and where to find it?

[MakeDataUseful]

This has made me want to code this up as a tutorial!

[TheMyname]

Hello,
is there a reason why we not have the variable 'speed' and 'vector' for the ball?

[lawrencedoliveiro]

6:16 But then, if you are always filling rectangular areas rather than plotting individual points, then you will always be specifying the bounds of the areas to be filled. Thus, filling the whole playing field would mean filling a rectangle with corners (0, 0), and (width, height), not (0, 0) and (width - 1, height - 1).

In other words, stop thinking of pixels as little squares. You want squares, think in terms of squares, not pixels.

[nutsnproud]

Thank you for the video I enjoyed it. I use Linux.

[newton]

"You should be using Linux." My man!