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		AlSweigart on Nov 9, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why kids don't program I don't agree that programming has gotten harder, I think it has become easier. What is harder now is finding material to learn programming that is simple for kids but also still "real" programming (not just game creation kits). I wrote a freely available book called "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" and released it under a Creative Commons license. It's available at http://inventwithpython.com I think Python makes a great (even superior) replacement for BASIC. Adding in Pygame, and it is much easier and fun to learn programming.

irskep on Nov 10, 2009 [–]

I looked over your book at some point and loved it. Thank you for writing this.

I prefer pyglet over PyGame. I wrote a tutorial for it in the style of your chapters 16-19. It's up at [1].

[1] http://www.steveasleep.com/pyglettutorial

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