Make Pong With Python!

[@wearegeek]

Hey Tim. I just recently discovered your channel and I must say I'm very impressed with your hands on tutorials. I'm working for a non-profit organization that helps people with a psychiatric background to rehabilitate. A lot of the participants show an interest in programming and your content is very helpful to explore this. Well explained; bite sized; project based. Thanks man!

[@ivanmironov599]

*Hey, Tim. *Thanks, man!

[@jakemasters4361]

Hey man, I don't comment too often but I felt the need to express my gratitude for all the great content. I studied C# years ago, loved it but got pigeon holed doing helpdesk work for 7 years and pretty much forgetting everything I'd learned. Almost a decade later I'm picking back up where I left off, discovering my passion again, and trying to get my foot in the development door professionally. Your channel has been a godsend. You have a natural talent for teaching and presenting information in a way that's easy to grasp. I've never been the type who learns much from just watching lectures. The guided tutorial format has always been best for me, and you've got some of the best I've been able to find. All the best!

[@myhatmygandhi6217]

I did this as a complete beginner, literally know nothing about programming/coding. Just followed the video and did it using Pythons IDLE. Had to make 4 or 5 corrections along the way but is was pretty straight forward. Great video! Looking forward to learning actual fundamentals of coding online now, preferably in Python. Edit: Being able to programme AI in this game would be great too for a future video.

[@TechWithTim]

I have a video on AI!

[@nextgodlevel]

I am following you since you just have 10k subs and I am very happy to see your growth and Keep doing this kind of work.

[@user-do3pd1sk6c]

I've missed your pygame tutorials! I find your tutorials interesting and especially the pygame ones since I started programming by making simple games, and now I'm learning pygame, so good job

[@Lahmeinthehouse]

Hey Tim! Great video, just one tip: Did you know that you can place the mouse location at multiple places AND do the exact same commands? So if you want to change left_paddle , left_paddle and change that directly to right, you can hold CTRL, click at the end of the words in BOTH variables, backspace and then write Right. This makes you able to change and write the same thing multiple places.

[@junealexissantos4341]

Tim, you are the best. I'm just a python beginner and I understand everything you taught here. Keep these kind of content going man. You're a legend.

[@tobyokoi0909]

You taught me way more than my intro to programming has, WAY easier to understand!! You're a life saver, fr.

[@salimmohammed1016]

Hey Tim. I dont have programming background except for seeing a few videos on python. I had visual studio code on my pc. I saw the first few minutes of the video and I installed pygame using the code given and then copy-pasted the code you attached and now I am playing ping on my pc. I am done within 10 minutes. Thanks a lot.

[@Alk0h0liX]

Hey Tim - thanks a lot for your amazing videos! I just started coding/Python two months ago and you helped me so much already. Always thought, that coding is something I am not able to do, because during study it was just horribly boring, but you definetely helped to show me, that coding is a lot of fun, a lot of thinking and a lot of "sense of archievement", if everything works in the end. An AI-pong video would be great by the way! I am just now trying something similar with "Brick Breaker" and I am kind of stuck :D

[@lukaszb3233]

Brilliant work Tim 😁 I absolutely love your content and it's very helpful for the beginner programmer to understand. The only thing I could add to this is to avoid repeatable code in your handle_paddle_movement function you could alter the move function of the Paddle class. That's what I did in the sample below: def move(self, up): if up == True and self.y >= 0: self.y -= self.VELOCITY elif up == False and self.y < HEIGHT - PADDLE_HEIGHT: self.y += self.VELOCITY Keep up the great work you do :)

[@olesmor72]

Thank you very much for this super tutorial! You are a very good teacher and I managed to learn a lot of useful things . Now I feel confident enough to try making something on my own.

[@karpagambaskar6608]

Love your videos tim. Congrats on 900k. Just 100k more and you'll reach the glorious 1000000. Your videos are great tim keep It up

[@tntredstone]

golden programming play button

[@davebostain8588]

Great Video! I have a program to train the Gym Pong in Pythorch. The training appears to go well, but the AI cannot play the game well. I am hoping these videos will provide some insight into why this is occurring. I like the way you didn't make a bunch of classes just to make classes, but made classes when it made sense to make classes. Looking forward to the Pong AI training video!

[@HenryTSBs]

Thank you very much Tim for this tutorial for just this pong game. I am a beginner in pygame coding so this really helped me a lot and I appreciate it. Keep it up Tim

[@HcmfWice]

You could save yourself a lot of typing by using the object-oriented features of Python. E.g. you could add some methods to the Paddle class like left_x(), right_x(), top_y(), bottom_y() that calculate and return the relevant edge values of the paddle. Same with the ball. It would also make the code much cleaner.

[@jamesstone8988]

Awesome tutorial and clear explanations! Especially appreciated how to "solve for" with the equation :) Thanks!

[@tiagovieira5080]

Tim, please do a video implementing AI for Pong.

[@kiish8571]

thank you, watching this is like therapy for me

[@tntredstone]

I was the 7,825 viewer watched the entire video and loved it👍

[@ВладиславМасляк]

thanks a lot helped now i will know python better :)

[@wrb5682]

Thank you Tim! It really helped in enhancing my knowledge.

[@TechWithTim]

Very welcome!

[@piotrczerechowicz9352]

Tim, great tutorial. You should definitely make video about implementing AI to opponent pong :D

[@asharhabib4742]

Awesome work! Keep up the great videos :)

[@guipe7712]

Hello Tim, Great video and interesting material. Im practice with this pygame is really cool. Thanks friend

[@alexbartles]

Here goes 1 hour of my day!

[@Aditya_777]

Thank you very much!!! Did it finally 🙏

[@ozgur8946]

Thanks for guide , really nice for both pygame and oop.I was wondering how to refresh text like scores without blinking text!

[@Lokakoskt]

First of all congrats for the video! And let me ask a question how you learned all this stuffs?

[@UnemployedMacintosh]

He posted a video a while back I think it’s called something like his programming journey. Shouldn’t be too hard to find on his channel

[@Heraclius.Maps1121]

biggest thanks from me! I had a project and You saved me

[@Child0ne]

Yyeeeessssssssssssss I know what I’m doing today ! Thanks timbo

[@pythonuser-f7t]

40:06 tim just expllained how light works(reflection)

[@codesaif8075]

Just started learning pygame today and you uploaded another game tutorial, Thanks Tim!

[@justmyfavs5796]

you can just add this instead of left_paddle movement to make an AI " if ball.y

[@diogenesthecynic1334]

where to add?

[@Mangohawk124]

This is smooth thats what i need ❤❤❤

[@lawson1310]

Bro, you are just the best!, am gonna make an AI beat this game😎

[@softwhere07]

Looks interesting, but I will have to check it out if I can ever get more time. I suppose I could watch 10 or 20 minutes if this a day until I finish it.

[@ranselaar]

Just started programming with Python, the fun is immense. Altough sometimes I get lost in my code spaghetti. Do you also have a video about clean code perhaps?

[@WatchItWithFuture]

I'm waiting on the planet simulation tutorial 😁

[@aumpauskar4653]

This video couldn't come at a much better time, I tried pygame juat last week and was halfway through making my *cursed pong* game.

[@JastaCon]

it would help if you could show your keyboard inputs too. sometimes i cant see the difference between __ and _

[@SneakySnakesStudio]

Much thanks bro ;-)

[@puturavindrawiguna3025]

hey Tim, i have a question about the reason you are passing the left paddle and right paddle into a list, is there any reason why you choose list instead of other array like type like say tuple? or is it completely free to choose and doesn't have an impact on the peformance

[@36aryansharma83]

Pretty cool man! never thought you could make games with python lol

[@adimac9346]

AI for pong is a great idea Tim!

[@Sniper1903]

20:11 how can I make this bracket on the keyboard like here I mean this -> ( in straight form

[@Gunsi-kb2xq]

Question... if you do not reset the ball (around 1:04) it keeps counting up the score (understood) but if you just wait the balls comes back from somewhere....why is that?

[@ninja411-zl9yl]

same

[@BackyardFusion]

where was paddles defined(minute20:26) it tells me that it isnt defined and also: TypeError: draw() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

[@GreenScreenKid284]

Can you make something related like creating Jarvis irl or how iron man codes his Armor and other gadgets

[@Clipaholick]

omg this is awesome!!

[@sp1nk1ck53]

I have a question: In the handle collision function, is it really necessary to check if the ball is in between the corners of the paddle it's about to hit if in it's nested "if" statement, you're going to check if the ball hits the paddle anyways?

[@pushkarajsavji729]

where is the paddles defined ? it says undefined and two arguments in draw function

[@Schmacksz]

If I’m not using pygame… what should I use for the import?

[@Schmacksz]

I’m on pythonista right now.

[@terryjophlin]

I don't really like how Tim seems to get bored and starts to rush, especially when it causes mistakes. It's cool that he kind of admits making the mistake, but the damage is done and the pattern is in my brain.

[@PaiganBeast]

Can someone help me? I'm getting a name error, saying '_name_' is not defined, and I'm not getting the black screen popping up at 9:14 :(

[@brucemozart3665]

I had the same error. Make sure that there are two '_' on each side of "name" and "main". This is easy to mess up :D

[@PaiganBeast]

@@brucemozart3665 I double checked, and ive two underscores on each side 🥺

[@sirgb7]

Great tutorial, thank you Tim

[@kulandaigeorgemariasingara5089]

I 'm your number one fan!

[@enomskenneth3125]

Mr may i conquire your help i was trying to download pygame but then an error occurec saying "no mudule named 'pygame'"

[@caleb7327]

Great Video

[@bigbro1815]

Great game

[@ghengushahn2852]

I’m having issues with collision, implementing what you have here my ball still only travels on the x axis I have no y travel at all I wonder what could be happening?

[@MonTech0451]

I have the same thing and dont know whats wrong

[@MonTech0451]

yo check your move function in the ball class i wrote self.x += self.y_vel and it sould be self.y+= self.y_vel

[@ghengushahn2852]

@@MonTech0451 yea I had the same thing good catch!

[@THEMATT222]

Very Noice 👍

[@kushalop_2]

Hi bro, nice tutorial. I got an error called NameError: name 'paddles' is not defined. I am a beginner so pls help me with this 😂😅😅

[@peterbregnbk8119]

what does size must be 2 numbers mean

[@alexanderwierzbicki7988]

quick question Tim. I have downloaded pygame successfully but when i run my module it just doesn't work. do you know why?

[@dw5197]

Do you have the right pycharm?

[@anuvabchakraborty4900]

You are really consistent

[@MonTech0451]

Hey Tim my program is just changing the speed of the ball when it collides with different sides of the paddle instead of changing angles. Do you know what might be wrong or anyone in the comments know?

[@MonTech0451]

ok i figure it out it was in the ball call move function and i wrote self.x += self.y_vel so my y movement was not working on the ball lol. I wonder why this caused my ball to change speeds instead of angle most be the collision equation was only appling on the x coordinates of the ball

[@Tinker250]

I am getting an error that reads AttributeError: partially initialized module 'pygame' has no attribute 'init' (most likely due to a circular import) pls help me

[@shiamjuniorchuttoocode]

Awesome video, really great, you did a great job.

[@kshutt6242]

How can I do this with IDLE? I have installed Pygame via the command prompt, but IDLE doesn't recognize pygame with import. Thanks in advance.

[@jamieharper5665]

I learned so damn much in this video! On to the AI using NEAT video that I've been eyeing up lol :P

[@ChristopherBruns-o7o]

9:02 why does if __name__ == "__main__":, not expect else after line break? Like most if statements. 15:46 and how do we get self.COLOR if we never define self.COLOR = COLOR? 19:55 Is there not some css equivant or rich font and bold colors and just a straight line would work i think. Maybe1pc. 20:18 one where your paddles break each move and hifher velocity has higher durability payout but handle the hame completely by math and right hand angles to geometry of polygon. Cause paddles break. 23:23 Bro its math. and have the model return pure JSON cause maths.

[@Billman07]

U are my fav teacher

[@TechWithTim]

You're my fav commenter ;)

[@Billman07]

@@TechWithTim damm i first time commented-

[@alfredgomez7701]

Hi sir how to out a game over message and please restart and start the game.

[@zulfiqar7967]

I completed ur Blockchain beginning course.. do you have any other plans to do another playlist on Blockchain development?

[@therabidpancake1]

So I have the program pretty much written the problem is that I don’t just want to copy down the program. I want to use as a learning tool. I am not going to lie I am learning a little bit . Some of it is clicking but I have a lot to learn.

[@ryanali156]

for some reason when i put the second set of parenthases in the pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HIEGHT)) it says thats its invalid syntax pls help

[@jagzey]

u spelt height wrong

[@bxr4231]

Such a cool video

[@granpajestaz292]

Followed to a T but getting error paddle object has no attribute draw any ideas?

[@theatfshotmydog8224]

did you add a draw(): function within the paddle class?

[@MathewBey13]

When I do the first test run, my window appears for a second then disappears. How do I fix this issue?

[@cYuber356]

Ai for pong!

[@tipsminecraftchannel4348]

Tim the code isnt working it wont let my paddles go up can you help me with this

[@mdjackhan]

hey um the code didnt work because every time u run it it just opens for 1 second and then closes, I even tried running your github code (it had same result)

[@masterm987]

You need to make sure your using the pygame.display.update() to keep the window open.

[@davidisfrench6560]

why dies it say that the module "pygame" is not found?

[@Adam-gk9or]

I rewrote your code but my display shows only for a second? do you guys know why is that?

[@zdiddy4112]

I had the same issue for a moment, for me it was an indentation error, my if __name__ == '__main__': main() was indented as if it was part of the main() function. I just had to de-dent that one part. Try selecting (click and drag) the if name ==main: main() part and press shift + tab it should pop it back into place at the start of the line

[@priyankagupta4772]

I'm a beginner, so can someone please tell me what the class function does?

[@OHIOHUBPS99]

i got trouble at excuting it it always fail and the pong is not responding

[@monkey-t4h]

1 question. How do you even get that Python???

[@MadAboutTrout-FlyFishing]

Hey guys.. im just learning python, and have a very low understanding, i have got as far as drawing on the paddles left and right, my issue is, when i run the program my paddles are sitting horizontally instead of vertically, can anyone help me with this?? They seem to be perfect dimensions, just drawn at the wrong angle. Any help be Much appreciated.

[@Fr-wx8zj]

I think you may be getting your paddle width and height placed wrong. There's two possibilities, 1. While calling your function, you put the variable for the width and height in the wrong order ( being paddle_height, paddle_width)(instead of paddle_width, paddle_height). 2. You got the variable sequence right, but the value is swapped with one another ( like paddle_width, paddle_height = 100, 20)(instead of paddle_width, paddle_height = 20, 100) I'm not sure if this is what you're asking , but hope it helps

[@MadAboutTrout-FlyFishing]

Thanks i posted this a while ago, so i got the issue fixed, much appreciated all the same 🙏🏻

[@FRAMEDSKATEKREW69]

Idk if you'll see this but how do I display 10 at the end of the match? Its kind of bothering me that it shows 9 when it ends. Hopefully I figure it out soon, Nice tutorial btw!

[@0Clappy]

Can you give a quick tid bit about the left_paddle.y - left_paddle.VEL >= 0 ? Is this like a vector thats updated per frame?

[@thequeerulantin]

Thanks for this tutorial. I've learned, that pygame is garbage. Not really for game developement. I will never use it again. Not nessescary for the real word. And i've learned, that I am not so far in my progress to really understand, what you have done.

[@markadyash]

yeah we all need AI playing pingpoing

[@Aerospace-innovation]

I literaly coded this on my calculator lol (not even kidding)

[@dant872]

I would like to see the AI piece of this

[@RizwanAhmed-fo8sx]

I haveing a problem 22 and i can not fix it

[@ownser1]

Can anyone explain to me why you would prefer to use something like pygame that takes much more time and knowledge, over a game engine like godot that will do a lot of the tedious work for you? This is a real question and I'm asking purely out of ignorance. Thanks to anyone who answers!

[@malindrome9055]

the reason why is pygame isnt about learning game dev per se, but its more about learning how to code and learning how to do other projects, like if you wanted to do gamedev, then pygame is not for you, then you can use godot, but pygame teaches you how to make other software, hope this helps!

[@hudsonmcknight4221]

the screen wouldnt show up

[@sarhabernalumana4206]

9:14 uhhh my window opens for a second and than closes by itself ....