installing python and pygame what you should know before you begin it might help if you know bit about python programming (or how to program in another language besides pythonbefore you read through this bookhowever even if you haven' you can still read this book anyway programming isn' nearly as hard as people think it is if you ever run into some troubleyou can read the free book --invent your own computer games with python|online at invent with python wiki at you don' need to know how to use the pygame library before reading this book the next is brief tutorial on all of pygame' major features and functions just in case you haven' read the first book and already installed python and pygame on your computerthe installation instructions are in this if you already have installed both of these then you can skip this downloading and installing python before we can begin programming you'll need to install software called the python interpreter on your computer (you may need to ask an adult for help here the interpreter is program that understands the instructions that you'll write (or rathertype outin the python language without the interpreteryour computer won' be able to run your python programs we'll just refer to --the python interpreter|as --python|from now on the python interpreter software can be downloaded from the official website of the python programming languagedownload and install the python software the installation is little different depending on if your computer' operating system is windowsmac os xor linux os such as ubuntu you can also find videos online of people installing the python software on their computers at windows instructions when you get to --news||--documentation||--download||and so onclick on the download link to go to the