Build a Video Game With Python Turtle & Visualize Data in Seaborn | Real Python Podcast

Can you build a Space Invaders clone using Python's built-in turtle module? What advantages does the Seaborn data visualization library provide compared to Matplotlib? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, along with special guest Real Python core team member Bartosz Zaczyński. We're sharing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
👉 Links from the show: realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/198/
Bartosz shares a Real Python step-by-step project for building a video game using the Python turtle module. The turtle module provides an interactive environment that lets users create pictures and shapes on a virtual canvas. The project takes you through game design concepts such as animating sprites, detecting a collision, and building a game loop.
We discuss another Real Python resource, "Visualizing Data in Python With Seaborn." Seaborn is a significant next step if you've already been working with Matplotlib. It produces impressive visualizations and offers a functional or object-based approach to designing plots.
We also share several other articles and projects from the Python community, including a news roundup, finding Python Easter eggs, exploring whether Python has pointers, styling Excel cells with OpenPyXL, using weird tests to capture tacit knowledge, inspecting and running Django commands in a TUI, building reactive web UIs in Python, and a project for predictable Python datetimes.
This week's episode is brought to you by Posit.
Topics:
- 00:00:00 -- Introduction
- 00:03:06 -- Python 3.13.0 alpha 5 is now available
- 00:03:38 -- Allow disabling the GIL with flags
- 00:04:17 -- Django security releases issued: 5.0.3, 4.2.11, and 3.2.25
- 00:04:32 -- The Python Coding Book
- 00:05:03 -- Finding Python Easter Eggs - Code Conversation
- 00:12:48 -- Sponsor: Posit
- 00:13:34 -- Visualizing Data in Python With Seaborn
- 00:18:18 -- Does Python have pointers?
- 00:21:43 -- Build a Python Turtle Game: Space Invaders Clone
- 00:30:42 -- Video Course Spotlight
- 00:32:04 -- Styling Excel Cells with OpenPyXL and Python
- 00:35:22 -- Use weird tests to capture tacit knowledge
- 00:37:09 -- whenever: Strict, predictable, and typed datetimes
- 00:42:25 -- hyperdiv: Build Reactive Web UIs in Python
- 00:46:19 -- django-tui: Inspect and run Django Commands in a TUI
- 00:48:40 -- Thanks and goodbye
👉 Links from the show: realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/198/