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Programming a Ping Pong Bot, Step by Step

Zilch · Level Up Your Coding Skills
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Whether you’re a beginner who wants to learn how to code or an expert looking to level up your skills, above all else what you need is motivation to get up and over the learning curve. With Zilch motivation comes in the form of fun projects tailored to your skill level - projects like programming a Ping Pong bot. With GitHub Codespaces you won’t even need to leave your web browser to get up and running. So whether you want to learn JavaScript, Python or anything else this is the right place to be. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and I can’t wait to see what you build! Get started with Table Tennis here: https://zilch.dev/table-tennis 00:00 Intro 00:51 Go to zilch.dev 01:18 Set up Table Tennis game 01:30 Create bot, pick programming language 02:16 Connect GitHub account 02:38 Create GitHub account 03:26 Codespace vs. local development 04:03 Create codespace 04:54 Code editor tour 06:20 How to use the terminal 09:49 Connect your bot to Zilch 10:45 …...more
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Programming a Ping Pong Bot, Step by Step
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2024Feb 9
Whether you’re a beginner who wants to learn how to code or an expert looking to level up your skills, above all else what you need is motivation to get up and over the learning curve. With Zilch motivation comes in the form of fun projects tailored to your skill level - projects like programming a Ping Pong bot. With GitHub Codespaces you won’t even need to leave your web browser to get up and running. So whether you want to learn JavaScript, Python or anything else this is the right place to be. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and I can’t wait to see what you build! Get started with Table Tennis here: https://zilch.dev/table-tennis 00:00 Intro 00:51 Go to zilch.dev 01:18 Set up Table Tennis game 01:30 Create bot, pick programming language 02:16 Connect GitHub account 02:38 Create GitHub account 03:26 Codespace vs. local development 04:03 Create codespace 04:54 Code editor tour 06:20 How to use the terminal 09:49 Connect your bot to Zilch 10:45 Get help via the Playbook 11:01 Overview of starter code 12:38 Move paddle “north” 13:21 How to handle bugs 16:54 Defeat the practice bot 18:19 Debugging your code 22:29 One last hint — Subscribe to the channel for more entertaining and informative content.    / @zilchdev   And thanks to all the creators out there who allow their work to be used with attribution. Gotta give credit where credit is due: https://zilch.dev/attribution

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Zilch · Level Up Your Coding Skills

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