Lessons – Page 3 – Beep & Pixel

Teach your programs to choose between different actions with if, elif and else, then build a robot mood program and…

Use for loops, range and colour lists to count, repeat and draw spirals with the turtle.

Store lots of things in one variable with a list, then add to it, count it, pick items from it…

Invent your own commands with def, give them parameters, and use them to draw stars and flowers.

Use Python’s random module to roll dice, flip coins, tell fortunes and scatter confetti.

Learn the while loop, which repeats until something changes, and build a countdown and a guess-the-number game.

Find the secret ingredients that make a game fun, then design your own board game on paper.

Build a number guessing game in Python with a secret number, a while loop and “too high” and “too low”…

Program a best-of-three Rock, Paper, Scissors match against the computer using random.choice and if statements.

Make Beep and Pixel race to 20 with dice rolls, then test whether going first is really fair.

Build a quiz game that asks questions from a list, checks the answers and keeps a score.

Write a friendly text adventure where the player’s choices change the story, using functions to keep the code tidy.