I just turned 60, I've been a technologist my entire adult life and have taught many "programming" courses (proprietary languages) for several fortune 100 companies but I'm relatively new to Python. I have to admit my first thought was, this person has a lot of nerve putting out an almost 4 hour video on the subject. I have to admit, when you're good, you're good and you are really good. I did the entire 3:47:57 over the course of 3 days and I got lost one time, _init_ instead of double underscores __init__. That's it. That was the one thing I screwed up, otherwise I learned a ton of new stuff and I'm, really pleased with how it all worked out. In my experience, it's pretty rare in these type of videos for the finished product to look like the author intended but you nailed it. Can't wait to learn more from you. Thanks! All the best, Dennis.

Seriously you do great job because: + explaining logical parts on seperate screen and then go into implententing + you make a chance to code by yourself + you just use simple drawing on screen to make code and logical parts more understandable + video is split on some smaller parts + tempo is accurate

Love that you release an amazing, 4 hour tutorial like this and it just ends abruptly with, 'so I hope that was helpful' 😆

I can't believe that you actually uploaded this free for everyone. This is one of the greatest tutorials I've ever seen. Thank you 💜

Gravity in the real world makes objects to fall quadratically, not exponentially. Your implementation of gravity is actually physically accurate.

Never before have i experienced such a fun and pleasuring learning experience on any kind of video tutorial ever. I can only thank you for you effort, this is now to me the definition of quality content.

46 minutes, I am coding along the video. This is already my new favourite channel of youtube man ! The clarity of speech. The time given for self exercises. This channel is too much !! You are the boss

This is absolutely fantastic. So well explained. Slowly but interestingly dealt with and so I feel like I'm actually learning fundamentals and can come back to this on my own at a later date and actually create my own stuff! I'm so happy that this has so many (well deserved) likes and views. Thank you.

Hahaha, how is it so hard to find programming education like this: the teacher actually spends time explaining concepts instead of explaining lines of code with fruits, colors, and animals while glossing over important material. You are a godsend.

The quality of your videos is out of this world CC! Relaxing, valuable and the way you explain things is top notch. I'd like to see a short 2D dungeon-like RPG level game idea with a simple scene changing - that would be a challenge :D P.S. I miss your background tutorial music you used in flappy bird ^^

Your videos literally seems like magic. It's amazing how you go step by step on each process and also give us exercises to try on our own. I hope you keep making more videos and your channel grows exponentially.

I can't put into words how much I appreciate you putting out this video, and the pace at which you explain things for beginners like me. Thank you so much. I wish you all the best.

I started at a more difficult tutorial of yours that I was loving but could not get past an issue I was running into. Starting back from the beginning and solidifying the basics with this video helps so much. From all the videos of yours I've followed I have always loved how clearly you explain these concepts. You make it easy to understand! Thank you for all your videos! I can tell I'm learning especially when there is an urge to clean up the code while working through it, when at one point I didn't even know that was a thing!

I'm halfway through and I really appreciate your teaching style. You move quickly but explain everything and why you're doing it. I'm trying to make a top down RPG game so I find it helpful to learn from a tutorial that's doing something different so i have to actually think about the concepts.

I'm new to the channel, and absolutely impressed with the quality. The pacing and detail of this video; course, really; is phenomenal. Great job!

this video has explained Python better to me than 3 months of university lectures

This is one of the best tutorials I've watched. He explains everything and makes it really easy to visualize how it works, and different ways to use it. This is one of the few long tutorials I've followed to the end, and I enjoyed every second of it. 10/10, would recommend.

Thank you for this tutorial. It's the first time I've watched a 4 hour tutorial back to back, and every minute was packed with value. Great job!

i 've been through a lot of programming courses, but your course is so different , simple ,concise and straight forward . keep the great work

This was excellent! I've just jumped into programming in Python and this tutorial is exactly what I was looking for. Kudos and thank you!

Dude I just started looking to learn how to make games with pygame and I am so thankful that you uploaded this at such a perfect timing

Your tutorials are top notch my friend. Comprehensive, both theory AND code, and the big kicker is the exercises. I did the first few hours of 3 different Python for Beginners courses before finding yours. Took me a few weeks, but I finally finished it. And now here you are teaching me Pygame in the same comfy, and well detailed learning environment. Thank you so much for the time you take to make these videos!

I really can't express how happy I am to have found this video. I had been dabbling with learning programming, and using python in particular, but every course or lesson I found online was so abstract that it was difficult for me to follow along. This was genuinely so helpful to just follow along and learn with, that I feel more confident after this 4 hour video than I did after completing CS50, and I can't praise you enough for that!

I love how ur aesthetics also carry over to the games you make

What an excellent tutorial! I finished almost a third of it and I am following the instructions without any obstacles. Well done!

You are such a great teacher! Giving examples and time to do it on our own helps with the learning and lets us use what we already know. Thank you!

Amazing video, I've now added your Zelda and mario videos to a playlist and will be following along! I'm especcially excited for the Zelda clone video!! The best thing about your explanations is this; when you wanted to add a new feature you added it in a easy way just to get it in the code, but the more complex the game got, you had to go back and update the previous code so it worked or was more effcient. I really found this actually showed the workflow of a gamedev and it was great to see! Its a great lesson because it teaches different techniques but also allows creativity to blossom. Amazing work!

Never have I even paid this much attention to an online video tutorial. thanks for making it easy to understand. keep up the good work!

I’m learning how to code in Python at school and this video has been very helpful for my final project, I can’t enumerate how thankful I am for Clear Code and his tutorials, they’re amazing

I knew about 60% of what you explained and I still watched every second of the video! Your structure, tone and patience is admirable. Thank you for creating this content!

I have to say that your tutorials really stand out from the rest in terms of quality and learning speed. Everything always works as you specify and remains understandable. The Godot 4 tutorial was great, and I think this one is also very good. Thank you for that.

I love the way you structure your videos. its like ok i just taught you and showed you now you try to do this part on your own, and guess what, i did it on my own.

(note for myself) 1:10:00 mouse stuff 2:23:50 enemy logic 2:50:00 animation

Hi, I just want to say thank you for making tutorials like this! I've always wanted to try my hand at making games. I followed your python tutorial and now this one and I love your style of teaching. The way you present the information, then show it in code and leave exercises for the viewer is very helpful. I plan to watch your piedew valley and zelda tutorials after this, but first I'll try making some easy games myself to solidify your teachings. Cheers!

Dude I have been following you're tutorials for a while and they are fire keep up with the good work! :)

Just finished watching and coding along with this video; I have officially created my first video game! 🎉 Very impressed with your channel, and I look forward to creating more projects from your videos and becoming a better programmer!

Best tutorial Honestly I'm new to pygame and this has taught me soo much other tutorials are hard to follow but this is easy to follow i love showing my parents and friends my progress thank you

This is such a great tutorial!! I never leave comments but I have to thank you for explaining everything so clearly and explicitly. I was starting the pydew tutorial and almost didn't do this one because I followed a few pygame tutorials before, but this one really helped me actually understand what I was doing lol. Thank you!!

I absolutely love the tutorial. I've done a far share of Unity and C# tutorials, but none have been close to as helpful as this. You're clear, make it simple, and the exercises really help problem solving. I feel like I know so much now compared to other tutorials. You've easily earned a sub. Thanks so much

I just finished coding along this project, it took me about a week, and I'm very proud of myself and how the game turned out! Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial! Will be tackling next ones soon!💯

You are an amazing teacher. This tutorial is the first one I found that explains everything in the most meticulous details. Thank you!

This video was a blast !! Not only the quality but the nice pace, the exercises, the explanations... everything was wonderful. I just program for fun whenever I feel like it, and now i'll watch your 8h video making a Zelda style game since it brought me here in the first place ^^

Decided to learn pygame for fun. Have to say that I was losing motivation before I found this video. Explained simply, not overcomplicated and not too fast. Really helpful that you explain the idea before implementing the code. You gave me a ton of motivation to learn again! Thanks!

I've watched the entire video and I want to say thank you so much! This tutorial is really great. The explanation is easy to understand and I especially love how there are exercises in between which I don't see much in other tutorial videos. I have so much fun coding this !

This is teaching at it's best. You are truely a talented educator! Thanks for your effort! Instant subscription

Awesome tutorial!! It gives a solid starting point. Congratulations man! Really appreciate the effort !!

This is a great tutorial. I am still in the middle of my python course on Udemy (still making a black jack game - just using the in built python modules) but one goal I have is to make a simple turn based xcom style game based on Stargate and this really opened up my eyes into what is possible. Thanks very much

I just discovered this tutorial. I'm only 47:46 into the video and I can already tell that this is by far the best video tutorial I've seen to date on UKposts. The presenter is clear and concise. He explains what is going on in the program/code without being overly technical or simplistic. I'm a fairly good Python programmer and decided to expand my knowledge into game development. All I can say is "Wow!" I'm looking forward to completing the entire tutorial.

Really good tutorial, out of every coding tutorial on youtube, this has captivated me the most. Keep it up!

This is hands down the best programming tutorial I've ever encountered. Thank you so much!!!

This excellent tutorial has sparked a joy that I didn't even know existed. I am now learning C# and how to code in Unity. Thank you so so much for making such free awesome content!

You Sir , are a gift for this planet,the way you are explaining it is just awesome. I prefer watching you doing this game that watching Netflix! I'm not even a code developper, braught here by the UKposts algorithm and I'm very thankful to find your channel, Sir. Thank you for your existence and your generosity for sharing your methods with the rest of the world. Salutations from France.

This was the clearest and best explanation of python I have ever seen

I've just started learning pygame and developing game apps. I found some tutorials, on you tube, that were good but yours are excellent! You're very precise and explain every step of the way, clearly. Thank you for these excellent teaching videos.

Watched 32 mins so far and this is the best tutorial I've seen, liked and subscribed.

Really great teacher. You are very helpful to the community and anyone who wants to learn.

there is no way this tutorial have this less view !! it explains so easily !! its quality is too good than any other pygame turtorial ! Thank you so much for this awesome video !! It deserves much more !

This was amazing. I only knew how to code basic text games, but never about the animation. Now I do. Thank you so much!

One of the best tutorial video projects I've ever watched. Thanks!

You make alltime great tutorials on coding with clear code, All love it Please continue uploading, And come up with more awesome tutorials, Always suppor

lost my house to recent hurricane fiona. watching your videos kept me going now im following along to up my pygame skills. by far the best way to get good at python. thank you

Great tutorial, super easy to understand and just at the right pace. Getting started with Pygame was a breeze thanks to this tutorial. 👍

You worked extremely hard on this and it shows! Thank you so much for putting so much beauty out into the world and making a difference.

I'm really weary of falling into tutorial hell, but you told us the inner workings so well that I seriously have been confident enough to do my own stuff after this tutorial. Thank you so much this might be the best programming tutorial I have ever seen.

Thanks CC. Great course 👍. One suggestion though, when you plan on overwriting code like you did while you explaining the sprite class, it would be easier to understand if you deleted the redundant code. Other than that this is top-notch stuff!

Thank you very match, Sir! Started watching your video as complete zero in pygame. Walked all the way through by hands and finished as someone who can do something. You are an amazing teacher. All the best wishes to you!

@Clear Code, thank you so much for the PyGame Tutorial. As an out-of-practice OOPython Programmer, I was going to use Encapsulation for the MANY Sprite similarities. However, you beat me to the punch and made it possible for me to practice my own OOP Experience against yours. Thank you so much for both the challenges and the video as I worked on my GameJam for the month. It really meant a lot!

Everything was making sense until 2:30:01 when better enemy logic came and destroyed me 😂 EDIT: I WENT THROUGH IT AND ALL OF IT DID MAKE SENSE AND NOW I HAVE A AMAZING GAME

"We could run this" *Me: running it* "But you won't be able to close this" *Also me: Ah shitt*

you're the bestest best person in this world. this is amazing.

Relaxed pace, well explained, Give problems to solve with what you have learned so far. Truly top tier tut.

Now that you have a solid introduction for pygame, will you make an intermediate-level tutorial that includes the use of classes and more slightly advanced topics?

Day 1 (23/02): 22:25 Day 2: 1:29:34 Day 3: 2:23:38 Day 4: end

Huge thanks for such a wonderful introduction not only to the pygame module but also to the world of gamemaking! You're great!

Really enjoyed this with the pace and explanations, incredibly helpful. Thanks!

Hey can you make some games using OOP? I've been doing some of your tutorials and well they end up getting really messy for me, and it would just be great if you start teaching us how to implement OOP to keep our code more organized.

Canal tão injustiçado. O cara faz um vídeo completão desse na línguagem mais popular do mundo na biblioteca de jogos mais completa nessa língua e ainda é inglês pra literalmente todo mundo aprender. Mas tão pouco inscritos e likes e relativamente poucas views... Não faz sentido! Falo por mim como brasileiro, esse canal é esplêndido! E tenho certeza que o sortudo que achar esse canal vai falar o mesmo. Continue com o bom trabalho que os apreciadores de verdade vão te agradecer imensamente!

Thank you so much for this video! I've been wanting to make video games for a long time yet had never started because I thought I'd needed to be a lot better at programming in order to start, but this video has helped a ton for understanding Pygame and core concepts for game programming :D

this is amazing! bout to binge all these learning python your style and flow is superb thank you

I think here at 2:04:10 we can just change the first variable in score_surf to currentime//1000, no need to change 2 lines and convert to integer, it works perfectly.

2:04:17 You could have use the integer division operator // instead of /, and doing the conversion in a separate line, so you don't need to do it in different places in the code, like this: score = pygame.time.get_ticks() - start_time score = score // 1000

Hello there! I am learning python for the last months, i came across with many video tutorials, your teaching method is great, you explain every point of your thought, and that's the way for students to proceed. I am watching this video again again, taking notes, great reference video. Keep up the good work, and feel great about this. thank you

Finally, I've found a video with 100% detailed explanation for every step and even more! I now understand how pygame works and it made my life so much easier. Thank you so much for your kind help for those of us, who really needed this tutorial.

1:59:58 you need to call your function which is (display_score) inside your game_active , then you see timer on your screen ❤ 2:35:01 #obstacle_movment obstacle_rect_list = obstacle_movment(obstacle_list) not obstacle_rect_list😊 3:07:11 if you still have problem with fly animation use this in your game_active : if event.type == fly_animation_timer: fly_frames_index = (fly_frames_index + 1) % 2 fly_surf = fly_frames[fly_frames_index]😊

Hi Clear Code. I have been having a problem in this tutorial recently. At 1:21:17 in the tutorial, you are making a bigger rectangle relative to a already declared rectangle using the width parameter in the draw method. When you did this, it added a border instead of a rectangle, and it was larger than if you drew the rectangle without a border. The border was also hollow, so you put in another rectangle to fill in the space. In pygame version 2.1.1, I think this was changed, and when you try to put a border now, the border wont be larger than the original rectangle, it will fill in the rectangle a bit instead, leaving part of the center hollow. This means you can't make the rectangle bigger relative to another rectangle using this method. Do you have any other idea of how to do this instead? Edit: I finally realized there was a thing called the INFALTE method. I didn't realize that lol hahah

dude such a start and general attitude, great lecture for both practical and theoritical aspects! keep up! seriously so good!

This tutorial is an indisputable ultimate introduction to Pygame which I enjoyed very much. Thank you!

First of all, thank you for putting so much time into this. I really learned alot from your tutorial. I'd like to provide you with some constructive criticism if I may. Take it from a guy who watched all 4 hours of this. I appreciate how thorough you were and how you walked us through your thinking and mindset. However, you really started to lose me in the end and following this tutorial became painful. Many times you would go so fast and then test the game that I'd have to rewind and often I missed steps because you went so fast. I mustve had at least 20-30 errors that I had to figure out on my own because I was trying to keep up with you so much that I wasn't really paying attention to what I was doing. That also makes it very difficult to learn. I understand this isn't for the beginner but if that's the case, you shouldnt have did everything so manually at first then make it so simple at the end. All the back and forth had me losing track and it was very scatter brained. All that being said, I still do think you did a great job but in the future perhaps consider your audience and how they may be slower than you. Give them time to catch up before scrolling down 90 lines then scrolling back up 50 lines etc. Also maybe plan the video better ahead of time so it's not so all over the place. You still earned my like and sub.

You are exactly 3 weeks late😭 I needed a tutorial like this 3 weeks ago. I made this Tron game.. this video would have made it way easyy. Anyways I am making different games now.. this video surely will help me a lot🖖 Great Video!

thanks for the great tutorial haven't seen a better one yet!! my brain hurts now because of all the annoying mistakes that I made. You're definitely my favourite programming channel so far :)

This tutorial left me actually wanting to come back after taking breaks every like 45 mins, and you explain it really well!

if you have the "no video mode has been set" problem, at 3:15:10 You need to create your player (3:14:15) AFTER you define your screen: (screen = pygame.display.set_mode(x, y))

I'm gonna try make basically a clone of mario using this tutorial hope it goes well.

This was a great introduction to pygame. It might get a bit confusing towards the end, but it actually helped me a lot as it was my first time using pygame and found it quite clear in explaining each of the things we were doing. In these more complicated parts, it was actually enough to simply pause it or even replay that part to understand what was happening. Even the part which can be a bit more confusing, it actually helps to understand and "build the ideas up". Thank you so much for this.

You sir are a great instructor/teacher. Thank you for your explanations as you teach.

"Please dont call the code right now" Me who already did that: -_-

Do you know how to select multiple units like in a RTS game and deploy them on a 2d map?

One of the best tutorials I did, thank you so much, excellent work, I learned a ton of stuff. Thank you man, really appreciate it.

Thank you for your tutorial and the effort you put in. Very explanatory and easy to follow.

Instructions unclear accidentally made minecraft