I used this to show my kids how computer games work. I started out by showing them Unreal Engine 4 so they understand the modern tool chain, but that still leaves the mystery of how the game is represented inside the computer. Within minutes you can have some code drawing things, real graphics, on the screen. I cannot adequately describe how easy it is.
The experiment I did with them (young kids) was define some variables, draw a counter on the screen, start a loop, and then increment the counter. After they saw how that was represented to the computer it was easy to get them to imagine a character with all of his stats assigned at the beginning and then updated on every iteration of the loop as events take place. But with kids you've gotta move fast or they lose interest. PyGame makes creating games so fast you can literally pick it up and start teaching it to kids without knowing it yourself. It's that good.
I used this to show my kids how computer games work. I started out by showing them Unreal Engine 4 so they understand the modern tool chain, but that still leaves the mystery of how the game is represented inside the computer. Within minutes you can have some code drawing things, real graphics, on the screen. I cannot adequately describe how easy it is.
The experiment I did with them (young kids) was define some variables, draw a counter on the screen, start a loop, and then increment the counter. After they saw how that was represented to the computer it was easy to get them to imagine a character with all of his stats assigned at the beginning and then updated on every iteration of the loop as events take place. But with kids you've gotta move fast or they lose interest. PyGame makes creating games so fast you can literally pick it up and start teaching it to kids without knowing it yourself. It's that good.