Python 3 Tutorials

There are also a lot of tutorials available online. The CoderDojo, however, has an online course on trinket.io which will be updated often, so keep checking back to see if anything else has been added that you would be interested in trying to do with a program.

• Drumchapel CoderDojo Trinket Course
• LearnPython.org interactive Python tutorial
• W3Schools Python tutorial

The Microsoft MakeCode Arcade is also Python capable. If you change the code type from "Blocks" to "Python" using the downward facing arrow next to where it says "Javascript", then your game will switch to the Python editor where you can view your game in Python code or program it in Python from "the ground up". There are also tutorials that are based around this website (and also the associated Python programming) available on the web.

• Platform Game examples.

A couple of things about MakeCode Arcade are that:

• If you make a game and want to send it out, you can send your friend a screenshot and they can load that screenshot into the MakeCode Arcade editor and it will load your game code. This is because the editor uses Steganography to embed the game code into the image whilst still having it readable by the image viewer as an image file of your screenshot. Here is an example using an implementation of Conway's Game of Life.
  
• If you want to carry your game on physical hardware and test on it then there are a few MakeCode Arcade compatible hardware consoles available for purchase with a non-exhaustive list here.