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Beginning Game Programming for Teens with Python (raywenderlich.com)
94 points by jmeyer2k on Aug 7, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments


Very cool! Reminds me of the games I was programming as a teen. Pygame seems like a pretty straight forward framework to easily start seeing things move on the screen which is really important to keep people motivated.


Written by a 12 year old.

I think I was just about getting onto the internet when I was 12.


I didn't even have computer at that age. #thirdworldproblems


A little young to be feeling old, aren't you?


It's awesome that you're already making tutorials. Keep it up!


Funny---I did literally exactly this in my senior year of high school with some friends. Pygame is so easy, it's amazing what you can do.

I think what we build should still work!

https://github.com/keevie/Awesomer-Game


It's a bit confusing that near the beginning it says that on a Mac Python is already installed (yay!), but as soon as you get to the meat where PyGame is installed, it basically says you'll need to re-install Python if you're on a Mac. So the "already installed" bit isn't all that useful, or did I misread?


I think what he's trying to say is that the Mac already has a preinstalled version of python which would allow you to get started and programming right away, however if you want to install pygame you would need to install a newer version of python which is more complete.


Yeah, sorry. I've learned a bit since I wrote that, my new tutorial is coming out and it explains installing PyGame and Python on both Mac and Windows.


I think it's excusable to be a (mac) fanboy when you are that small.




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