Python in High School

[Aahz]

In article <pan.2008.04.02.17.10.19 at news.janc.be>,
Jan Claeys  <usenet at janc.be> wrote:
>
>There are at least 3 books about game programming in python:
><http://www.amazon.com/Game-Programming-Line-Express-Learning/dp/0470068221>

STAY AWAY

Speaking as half of the tech-editing team for this book (the formal title
is _Game Programming: The L Line, The Express Line to Learning_), I
recommend staying as far as possible from this book.  It does an okay job
of teaching pygame, but it does a poor job of teaching Python (for
example, it does not mention dicts) and therefore has a number of flaws
from a pedagogical perspective, *plus* there are some bugs in the code.
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