On 01/04/12 12:03, Leam Hall wrote:
For that path I'd agree that Python 3 is the way to go. I believe PyGame is Python 3 ready so you've got an automatic hook for the kids. Heck, probably many of their parents as well! Check out the book "More Python programming for the absolute beginner" as it teaches Python and PyGame at the same time.
I've played around with PyGame on Python2 - hadn't realised it was ready for Python3 yet. It's just the kind of thing that would have sparked my son off when he was a kid. He wrote hundreds of lines in the rather dumb Basic that the Speccy used in the olden days, and guess what - when he went to uni, his degree was in computer science! I really hated Basic, and programmed in Z80 assembler until I met with c and learned how much fun programming could really be. Python is even more fun. I was a bit taken aback a few years later when my son left his job as sys-admin for a big firm. He said that the work was a job for a twenty-year old whiz-kid. He was more interested in how business works. He now charges an absolute fortune as a freelance consultant. Kind regards, Barry -- From Barry Drake - a member of the Ubuntu advertising team. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
