Game Programming in Python

Game Programming in Python is a short course offered through TU Berlin in which participants build a graphical action game from the ground up. The course is structured as a step-by-step guided progression from an initial prototype to a deployed game hosted on a live website. No prior programming experience is required. The course covers Python fundamentals including variables, data types, control flow, and functions. Students learn to organise code using functions and modules, model data, implement an event loop and game logic, and render 2D graphics. Additional topics include coding strategies such as describing requirements, reading existing code, and finding bugs, as well as deployment and software versioning. Work is done in pairs, using a working prototype that is extended incrementally. Sessions include debugging work and short warm-up and recap segments. The course is offered at Technische Universität Berlin in Berlin, Germany.