Darivie04:

Pygame isn't a module, its a library since its a collection of modules. A simple check to Pygame's official Github page clear any doubts(read below)

Pygame, the library is cross-platfrom and designed to make it easy to write multimedia software, such as games, in Python. Pygame requires the Python language and SDL multimedia library. It can also make use of several other popular libraries.
https://github.com/pygame/pygame/

Modules are single code files.

heehheee

modules and libraries are pretty much the same.
The issue is different languages use it interchangly.
C language call it library
python call it module.

You can call pygame a module or library.
Being more precise in python, you say it is module.

Darivie04:

It depends on the type of PDF(book) you have. I've never watched a Python video and I still know Python extremely well.

I'm actually a supporter of PDF over videos lol, everyone has different learning styles.

So true, it depends on individual and their learning skills. But, the reason why I sometimes support videos is that, if one is a self-taught programmer. There are some words that you may not know the pronunciation. Take for instance operation // for flow division. Well it may also depend on how comprehensive the PDF document is.

sparkle6:

where did u download mysql share pls. the one i download had no gui\workbench.

what version? I also encounter same problem.

cutegentility:
what version? I also encounter same problem, but I think there are some Microsoft packages that need to be installed. Like Microsoft 2013 c++ redistributable etc

i have the update microsoft 2015 men. But i think i will download the zip file.

cutegentility:
So true, it depends on individual and their learning skills. But, the reason why I sometimes support videos is that, if one is a self-taught programmer. There are some words that you may not know the pronunciation. Take for instance operation // for flow division. Well it may also depend on how comprehensive the PDF document is.

That's true though

Humchi:


ogbeni where did i say i have fully understand this language?

Oversabi

you can't even differentiate between a module and a package.

Pygame is a module not a package oga ITK

I'm sorry my bad..

sparkle6:

i have the update microsoft 2015 men. But i think i will download the zip file.

You may try the zip file

youngds:

I'm sorry my bad..

apology rejected...
Because i don't need it.
So we can move on now.

cutegentility:
To show it's importance, it is used by top companies/domains like YouTube, Google, bittorrent, NASA and the likes.

Dropbox, nairaland

olamil34:


Dropbox, nairaland

Waoh, nice one. I never knew nairaland use this. Amazing

Humchi:


apology rejected...

Because i don't need it.

So we can move on now.

Lol Typical nairalander

Humchi:


apology rejected...

Because i don't need it.

So we can move on now.

youngds:

Lol Typical nairalander

Both of you should be calm and learn or maybe contribute positively. All I see in both of you now are learners like myself but difference is that you both are claiming guru when you haven't even scratched the surface (maybe).

Python is very vast. No one claims to be perfect in it as all keeps learning new things day in day out.

Speaking of pygame sef, has anyone ever made a decent game with it or just use it to design their codes?

GreatAchiever1:
Speaking of pygame sef, has anyone ever made a decent game with it or just use it to design their codes?

I haven't find yet, everyone will keep trying.

greatface:


Both of you should be calm and learn or maybe contribute positively. All I see in both of you now are learners like myself but difference is that you both are claiming guru when you haven't even scratched the surface (maybe).

Python is very vast. No one claims to be perfect in it as all keeps learning new things day in day out.

thanks sir.

PYTHON STRINGS: like many other programming languages, strings in python are arrays of bytes representing unicode characters. However, python does not have a character data type, a single character is simply a string with a length of 1. Square brackets can be used to access elements of the strings.


Example - get the character at position 1.

a = " h e l l o "
p r i n t ( a [ 1 ] )


Another example.
Substring. Get the character from position 2 to position 5.

b = " w o r l d "
p r i n t ( b [ 2 : 5 ] )

INDENTATION: python uses indentation for blocks, instead of curly braces. Both tabs and space are supported, but the standard indentation requires standard python code to use FOUR spaces. For example:
x = 1
#indented four spaces
p r i n t ( x )

________________________

COMMAND-LINE STRING INPUT

python allows for command line input. That means we are to ask user for input. The following example asks for user's name, then, by using the "input()" method, the program prints the name to the screen:

p r i n t ( " e n t e r y o u r n a m e : " )



x = i n p u t ( )





p r i n t ( " h e l l o " + x )


save this file as demo_string_input.py, and load it through the commmand line:

the program will prompt the user for a string:
_____________________
ENTER YOUR NAME:
_____________________

The user now enters a name like HUMCHI
then the program prints it to screen with a little message: HELLO HUMCHI

Humchi:
COMMAND-LINE STRING INPUT

python allows for command line input. That means we are to ask user for input. The following example asks for user's name, then, by using the "input()" method, the program prints the name to the screen:

p r i n t ( " e n t e r y o u r n a m e : " )



x = i n p u t ( )





p r i n t ( " h e l l o " + x )


save this file as demo_string_input.py, and load it through the commmand line:

the program will prompt the user for a string:
_____________________
ENTER YOUR NAME:
_____________________

The user now enters a name like HUMCHI
then the program prints it to screen with a little message: HELLO HUMCHI

well done job, I was so busy.

You execute your operation by using the print statement. print("",).

Take:
X = 50
Y= 100


To carry out arithmetical operation, use start by typing:
print("X plus Y," X+Y)
print("X minus Y," X-Y)
print("X divided by Y," X/Y)
print("X multiply by Y," X*Y)

For exponential you use double asterisk
Say 10 raise to power 2

print(10^2, 10**3)


For modulus division. Modulus division is just the remainder of your division. The modulus of 9 divided by 2 is 1.
So, print("9 modulus 2", 9%2)


Then // for floor division. It simply round off your decimal to zero.

Say 20//3 equals to 9 or say 9.0

Then the assignment operator assign the value of the right side as the value of the left hand side.

say Z = X + Y
Z = 150.

Now, the assignment operator is useful when dealing with two variables.

Hence, for addition of Z and Y. You simply use the shorthand +=

Hence, Z +=Y
Z//=Y,
Z/=Y,

Comparison Operators

This is use to compare the values of a given variables.

We use operation
< Less than
> Greater than
== Equivalent to
!= not equivalent to

== is used instead of one equivalent sign in comparison operator
The value for this is either true or false.

Take for instance, print("is Z greater than Y", Z >Y)

Logical operator. We have the and, or and the not gate.
In this case, you will be working on true and false.

Nb: always type true as True and false as False in Python. Because it is a reserved keyword.

a = True
b = False

For the And gate:
The output is high (1) if both the inputs are high otherwise low (0). Remember we are working on binary. So, the output of and gate is always low.


1 and 0 = 0
0 and 1 = 0
1 and 1 = 1
0 and 0 = 0



For the or gate:
The output is low(0) if both the inputs are low otherwise high (1). So, the output of or gate is always low.


1 or 0 = 1
0 or 1 = 1
1 or 1 = 1
0 or0 =0





The not gate is a reversal of the logic gate. If the inputs are high, the output will be low.

Bitwise Operators operate on bit level.
This convert your data to binary and carry out the output. e.g
1110
1010
We have the biwise And denoted by the symbol &
Bitwise denoted by vertical slash |,
And bitwise Xor denoted by ^.

For bitwise and
1110
1010
1010

Bitwise or
1110
1010
1110
Bitwise xor

1110
1010
0100

There are left shift and right shift in bitwise operation.

1100 >> 2 becomes 0011
1100<<2 becomes 0000

The identity operator is nothing to worry about, it is use to check the value if it is either true or false in a program


The last operator which is the membership set deals basically with list. It is a set of item. Note, the list identifier is to be written in capital letter
Z = [a, b, c , d]

We shall be dealing with this under the various data types.

Data types is categorised into two, immutable and mutable. There are six data types in Python, they are: numbers, strings, tuples, lists, dictionaries and lastly, sets.
Immutable character are character whose value once assigned cannot be altered. Examples are numbers, strings and tuples while the rest are mutable.

what was your goal before deciding to learn python?

i started in 2016 and my goal was to build crypto script that aggregated all the volumed from multiple exchanges into a buy/sell signal.

it took me 2 months to be able to accomplish that. And from that I'm building a much larger project using python 3.6.

once you learn python learn a little C. you don't have to use it but it'll help you become a better programmer

Humchi:
COMMAND-LINE STRING INPUT

python allows for command line input. That means we are to ask user for input. The following example asks for user's name, then, by using the "input()" method, the program prints the name to the screen:

p r i n t ( " e n t e r y o u r n a m e : "



x = i n p u t ( )





p r i n t ( " h e l l o " + x )


save this file as demo_string_input.py, and load it through the commmand line:

the program will prompt the user for a string:
_____________________
ENTER YOUR NAME:
_____________________

The user now enters a name like HUMCHI
then the program prints it to screen with a little message: HELLO HUMCHI

better syntax is

name = input("what is your name\n" )
print(f"Hello {name}" )

if you don't have python3.6+ for F strings

then
print("Hello {}".format(name))

Snwokenk:
what was your goal before deciding to learn python?

i started in 2016 and my goal was to build crypto script that aggregated all the volumed from multiple exchanges into a buy/sell signal.

it took me 2 months to be able to accomplish that. And from that I'm building a much larger project using python 3.6.

once you learn python learn a little C. you don't have to use it but it'll help you become a better programmer

Waoh, I am glad to hear this, I am having many project to accomplish with python. What framework do you use?

For checking true and false. python is one of the languages that has a truthy/falsy concept.

0 is falsy and any number other != 0 is truthy
empty data structures like list, dict, strings are falsy and non empty data structures are truthy.
a variable == none will also be falsy

for example

d = ()

if d:
print("it is true" )

This example will not print because the conditional evaluates to false or falsy

but if

d =(none)
if d:
print("it is true" )

this will print because d isn't empty. even though its only item is a none

cutegentility:
Waoh, I am glad to hear this, I am having many project to accomplish with python. What framework do you use?

Twisted - for networking
Pycryptodome - for cryptography

I tried using Tkinter for gui but will have to overhaul and probably use pyqt5 or use a browser-based gui. (probably with reactjs)

Snwokenk:


Twisted - for networking
Pycryptodome - for cryptography

I tried using Tkinter for gui but will have to overhaul and probably use pyqt5 or use a browser-based gui. (probably with reactjs)

OK, nice one. I love programming.