Python Coding - Create Your Own Video Game! - (Twice a Week, 8 Weeks)

Turn your child’s love for games into coding confidence with Einsteins Square!
Join learners worldwide in this 16-day journey where kids build 10+ creative projects and 3 full arcade-style games using Python Turtle Graphics and Pygame—two powerful libraries for visual, interactive coding.

Our expert instructors—working IT professionals with real-world experience—have earned 5500+ glowing 5-star reviews and are ranked among the top-rated coding educators globally. With our engaging, hands-on teaching style, learners not only code games but also strengthen problem-solving and creative thinking.
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In this 16-day journey, your child will:
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🎮 Design interactive games with Python’s Turtle Graphics module, such as a Turtle Race, a Chase Game, and a Drawing App.

🖼 Bring code to life with animations, shapes, and creative designs—building colorful mandalas, a solar system, an analog clock, moving cars, and shooting stars.

🧠 Apply core coding logic with loops, conditionals, lists, functions, events, and debugging to create both art and games.

⚡ Explore game engines with Pygame—adding real game mechanics like sprite movement, scoring systems, enemies, health, sounds, and collision detection.

🌟 Build 3 arcade-style games: a Coin Collector, a Fruit Catcher with levels and good/bad fruits, and a custom mini-game of their own creation.

🚀 Complete a final project—students can create a new arcade game from scratch or expand their Fruit Catcher into a multi-level game, showcasing all their skills.

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Teaching Style
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Our structured curriculum blends step-by-step guidance with opportunities for independent problem-solving, ensuring learners gain both technical mastery and creative confidence. Every project is designed to be exciting, relatable, and fun—helping kids build real games they can proudly share.

Beyond coding, learners sharpen computational thinking, logic, and creativity, boosting academic performance and preparing them for future careers.

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🚀 Course Highlights
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✨ No prior experience needed—just curiosity and a computer!

✔ Beginner-Friendly Python – Perfect for first-time coders; no prior experience required
✔ Hands-On Learning – Build 8+ exciting games and projects
✔ Interactive Debugging – Students share code for live guidance and feedback
✔ Core Coding Skills – Master variables, loops, conditionals, lists, functions, and OOP basics
✔ Real Game Development – Learn Turtle graphics for drawing & animation, plus Pygame for movement and collision
✔ Expert Instructors – Taught by Einstein’s Square IT professionals, trusted by parents worldwide with 5,000+ five-star reviews
✔ Flexible Learning – Each session includes practice tasks to reinforce learning
✔ Engaged Community – Learners collaborate, ask questions, and share games in a safe, supportive space
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🎮Exciting Projects Kids Will Build
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Mini Projects & Creative Designs

🐢 Turtle Race Challenge
✍️ Drawing App with Turtle
🎨 Colorful Mandala with the colorsys module
🌌 Solar System with orbiting planets
⏰ Analog Clock Face using coordinates
🚗 Moving Car Animation
✨ Shooting Star across the night sky


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Arcade-Style Games
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🏃 Chase Game (player vs chaser)
💰 Coin Collector Game (with enemies, health & scoring)
🍎 Fruit Catcher Game (with good/bad fruits, levels & pause screen)
🎮 Final Project: Custom Mini Game or Advanced Fruit Catcher with scrolling backgrounds

Each project is designed to reinforce Python concepts while allowing creativity and customization, so every child’s game is unique.

🎓 Continuing the Coding Journey

Einstein’s Square provides a structured coding pathway so learners keep advancing after this course:

➡️ Python Pygames – Create your own Video games level 2 and 3 
➡️ Python Data Handling & Automation
➡️ Python Analyst Track
➡️ Generative AI 
➡️ Introduction to AI, Machine Learning & Python

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👥 Supportive & Interactive Environment
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Learners are encouraged to share code, ask questions, and showcase their games. Teachers provide personalized debugging support and encourage collaboration to build confidence. Mistakes are treated as learning opportunities, helping students grow persistence and problem-solving skills.

This class is designed to be fun, engaging, and beginner-friendly—perfect for kids who love games and want to learn coding in a practical, creative way.

💻 Technology Requirements

Students will use Python with Turtle and Pygame modules. Instructions for installation will be provided in the Outschool classroom before the course begins. A laptop or desktop computer is required (not a tablet or Chromebook).