Learn Python Visually

Introduction

When I first encountered programming code, I stared, amazed and bewildered, at a screen of obscure commands and symbols and wondered how anybody could understand it, let alone write it. I’d hit the F5 key, and the program would magically spawn a cityscape in which two players, depicted as gorillas, could hurl explosive bananas at each other. I tried changing a few lines to see what would happen, and on occasion, it was something predictable or cool. More often than not, the game would simply fail to run. In a futile attempt to be helpful, the computer would diagnose my errors, rambling on about syntax and “illegal” operations of ...