Pong with Python & Pygame – Tutorial

Improve your Python and Pygame skills by building the classic pong game, but this time with extra features. This beginner's tutorial is a great way to start learning how to create engaging games with unique mechanics.

✏️ Course created by @SMDS_Studio

⭐️ Contents ⭐️
(00:00) Intro
(01:09) Agenda of the course
(02:04) Traditional pong
(26:09) Creative angles
(30:21) Smash element
(38:03) Flash element
(41:10) Ball cloning
(51:51) Paddle cloning
(1:01:55) End screen element

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[SMDS_Studio]

Thank You so much everybody for watching this tutorial. Firstly, There will be a lot of people thinking why didn't I use classes annd objects in the code for the paddles, ball, etc. But then according to me, classes cannot be easily understood by beginners unless they know it. Now again we have some more amazing pygame tutorials such as writing your own name on the pygame window and we specialize towards machine learning on our main channel. So you might as well be interested in that.

[starwyvern]

This was great! I'm a Python beginner but I feel like I learned a lot just by going through this tutorial. The results are very satisfying.

[witt]

Very nice tutorial indeed! I followed through what you've written, and creating thus, 4 different pong versions! The code and the explanations were simple and clear enough, even though in the later stages, with the cloning of the paddles and the dummy ball, I got a bit confused with all the copy and paste to do! Looking forward for the next project!

[BsktImp]

05:45 Noob here. Can you explain why 'if __name__ == "__main__":' isn't used?
Also is there a reason for not creating a paddle & ball classes and objects?

[akinjareolamide]

My left paddle is not moving, can you please help me?

[bishambarsharma]

Can we create framework in python? Yes, how

[lesterjackson]

Hello SMDS, sorry for asking such a newbie question here. While I'm half way through your tutorial and currently implementing the left paddle collission, I'm really confused about these lines:

if left_paddle_x <= ball_x <= left_paddle_x + paddle_width:
if left_paddle_y <= ball_y <= left_paddle_y + paddle_height:

How or why do we need multiple two "<=" operations in a single statement? Is this really necessary? Could this have been accomplished with just one "<=" operation? Aren't we trying to determine if the ball has exceeded the paddle's left coordinates + its width?

In fact, if I change what you instructed in the tutorial to:

if ball_x <= left_paddle_x + paddle_width:
if ball_y <= left_paddle_y + paddle_height:

...the left paddle collission seems to work fine. What am I missing here?

[FakeZOOr]

I would love to start coding. What sould I learn first?
Or where should I start if I am not able to go to University?

[Lyricy]

uh noob here what app are you using a want to get into python

[s.p.sanjay]

Sir, upload full bash scripting course

[marioamatucci]

spaghetti code in python -using pygame

[DataScienceWithAkesh]

Please make video on ROS OR ROS2 #PLEASE #PLEASE😢

[topplewear]

Hello,
I wasn't able to get the circle on the screen at all.
I tried two methods.
1. pygame.draw.circle(screen, (230, 0, 0), (300, 250), 25 )
and when it didn't work I used the one shown in the video but I still wasn't able to get it. Can anyone help me?

my code:  
import pygame
pygame.init()

width, height = 600, 500
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))
game")

run = True

BLUE = (0, 0, 255)
radius = 15
ix, iy = width/2 - radius, height/2 - radius

#main game loop
while run:
for i in pygame.event.get():
if i.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
#pygame.draw.circle(screen, (230, 0, 0), (300, 250), 25 )
pygame.draw.circle(screen, BLUE, (ix, iy), radius)

[bishambarsharma]

Can we create framework in python? Yes, how