The Big Book of Small Python Projects


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Best-selling author Al Sweigart shows you how to easily build over 80 fun programs with minimal code and maximum creativity. If you’ve mastered basic Python syntax and you’re ready to start writing programs, you’ll find The Big Book of Small Python Projects both enlightening and fun. This collection of 81 Python projects will have you making digital art, games, animations, counting pro- grams, and more right away. Once you see how the code works, you’ll practice re-creating the programs and experiment by adding your own custom touches. These simple, text-based programs are 256 lines of code or less. And whether it’s a vintage screensaver, a snail-racing game, a clickbait headline generator, or animated strands of DNA, each project is designed to be self-contained so you can easily share it online. You’ll create: • Hangman, Blackjack, and other games to play against your friends or the computer • Simulations of a forest fire, a million dice rolls, and a Japanese abacus • Animations like a virtual fish tank, a rotating cube, and a bouncing DVD logo screensaver • A first-person 3D maze game • Encryption programs that use ciphers like ROT13 and Vigenère to conceal text If you’re tired of standard step-by-step tutorials, you’ll love the learn-by-doing approach of The Big Book of Small Python Projects. It’s proof that good things come in small programs!




Disney Phineas and Ferb Colossal Comics Collection


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Phineas and Ferb want to get the most out of their summer by making every day outrageously fun, but these two best buds aren't content with going to the beach or camping out. Whether they're building a time machine, a backyard roller coaster, or the world's largest drop of water, Danville—and the whole Tri-State Area—will never be boring again! Unless, of course, scheming big sister Candace manages to expose their antics and shut everything down, or worse, if the evil Professor Doofenshmirtz succeeds in taking over the world! To keep things rolling, Phineas and Ferb are going to need the help of their pet platypus Perry, who moonlights as a secret agent protecting the city and stopping Doofenshmirtz in his tracks. Hang out with Phineas & Ferb on the coolest summer break EVER in this colossal 300-page comics collection!




Dictionary of the British English Spelling System


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This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters ) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.




Level Up!


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Design and build cutting-edge video games with help from video game expert Scott Rogers! If you want to design and build cutting-edge video games but aren’t sure where to start, then this is the book for you. Written by leading video game expert Scott Rogers, who has designed the hits Pac Man World, Maxim vs. Army of Zin, and SpongeBob Squarepants, this book is full of Rogers's wit and imaginative style that demonstrates everything you need to know about designing great video games. Features an approachable writing style that considers game designers from all levels of expertise and experience Covers the entire video game creation process, including developing marketable ideas, understanding what gamers want, working with player actions, and more Offers techniques for creating non-human characters and using the camera as a character Shares helpful insight on the business of design and how to create design documents So, put your game face on and start creating memorable, creative, and unique video games with this book!




The Penguin Sudoku Challenge


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SUDOKU (SOO-DOH-KOO)-a 9x9 logic puzzle to superheat the very core of your brain and to challenge your numeracy, spacial awareness and problem-solving abilities. WARNING-the five levels of The Penguin Sudoku Challenge- Volume 2may leave you smugly grinning, scratching your head, sighing deeply, snapping your pencil - and maybe even throwing your book at the wall. But you also have permission to frame your most difficult completed 9x9s. GOOD LUCK!




Word Searches For Dummies


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A travel-friendly puzzle-packed book that keeps the brain in shape One of the best ways to exercise the mind is through word and logic games like word searches and Sudoku. Studies have shown that doing word searches frequently can help prevent diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia. Word Searches For Dummies is a great way to strengthen the mind and keep the brain active plus, it's just plain fun! This unique guide features several different types of word searches that take readers beyond simply circling the answer: secret shape word searches, story word searches, listless word searches, winding words, quiz word searches, and more. It provides a large number of puzzles at different levels that will both test and exercise the mind while keeping the reader entertained for hours.




The 3 Minute, 90 Day Gratitude Journal for Boys


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The 3 Minute, 90 Day Gratitude Journal is an excellent resource to encourage positivity, cultivate an attitude of gratitude, and promote mindfulness for boys. Romney Nelson, Best Selling Author of 'The Habit Switch, ' has created the Gratitude Journal for boys with an easy to follow daily entry with prompted questions to encourage boys to open up about how they feel and what they are grateful for. It will be a tool that will help boys to express their gratitude and thankfulness for what they have, and the special moments they would like to remember. It will also help boys form the wonderful daily habit of gratitude journaling. Every 30 days, there is an opportunity to reflect on the favorite things you did, special moments you have had, or even add a drawing or photo as a keepsake. It will be a gratitude journal that will remain special for many years to come. The 3 Minute, 90 Day Gratitude Journal has been designed in the perfect 6.69 x 9.61 size for kids to take anywhere. Grab your special copy for your son, grandson or special friend today.




The Simply Vegetarian Cookbook


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Discover the stress-free way to stay vegetarian with easy, everyday comfort recipes from The Simply Vegetarian Cookbook. Simplicity—it's the only ingredient that should be in every vegetarian recipe. When you're short on time, low on ingredients, or cooking for omnivores and carnivores alike, The Simply Vegetarian Cookbook stocks your kitchen with the easiest, everyday recipes that anyone can pull off, any day of the week. This vegetarian cookbook features recipes grouped by type of cooking ease. From 5-Ingredient to 30-Minutes or Less to One Pot recipes, The Simply Vegetarian Cookbook allows you to decide what to cook not only by what looks good—but also by what's the easiest for you. Simplicity is the main ingredient of every recipe in this vegetarian cookbook, with: Easy-to-find ingredients that you can buy year-round in your local market Easy-to-make comfort meals for lunch or dinner, with a handful of side dishes, breakfasts, and snacks Easy-to-adapt recipes for vegans and meat eaters, with substitution tips for recipes, plus an entire category devoted to making one dish in two different ways From Portabella Eggs Florentine to Baked Eggplant Parmesan, The Simply Vegetarian Cookbook serves up fuss-free, everyday recipes to make your life easy.




Relaxing Dot-To-Dot for Adults


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It's time to be driven dotty, but in a good way! Welcome to our collection of hand-made dot-to-dot puzzles, containing over 15,000 dots for you to connect! The rules are simple: starting at number 1, draw a line to dot 2, then 3 and so on. In addition, these extra-challenging puzzles also contain some hollow dots. When you reach a hollow/white dot, this indicates that the current line stops. You should then look for the next dot which will also be hollow and draw a new line starting there. Full instructions and an example of this are featured inside the book. Once you've reached the end dot, you've finished the puzzle! All puzzles have a minimum of 400 dots, right up to over 1,000. However, even with that many dots on a page, we've worked hard to ensure we are consistent with the position of every single dot in this book from start to finish: the dot is always positioned to the left of each number. This removes any ambiguity that can occur from having dots in different places relative to their numbers in the same puzzle, so by checking the position of a dot relative to a number it is always possible to work out which dot goes with each number throughout the book. Our puzzles are printed on high quality paper with only one puzzle printed per two pages, so there is always a blank reverse side. Thus if you decide to colour in a puzzle once finished, pen marks going through to the other side of the page won't affect any other puzzle. We do recommend using a pencil for drawing the dots to allow for a neater line and also any corrections that may need to be made. That's all there is to it! Delve in to this collection of relaxing and satisfying puzzles and take a trip back to those carefree moments as a child. Creating beautiful artwork along the way, we are sure that you will enjoy completing all 31 puzzles and being driven dotty for dots!




Animal Vegetable Criminal


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AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Delightful' Ed Yong What's to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? Follow Mary Roach as she investigates laser scarecrows, robo-hawks, human-elephant conflict specialists and monkey impersonators. Travel to the bear-busy back alleys of Aspen, the gull-vandalized floral displays at the Vatican and leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Himalayas. In this fresh, funny and thoroughly researched book, dive into the weird and wonderful moments when humanity and wildlife bump up against one another.