installing python topics covered in this downloading and installing the python interpreter how to use this book the book' website at hellothis book teaches you how to program by making video games once you learn how the games in this book workyou'll be able to create your own games all you'll need is computersome software called the python interpreterand this book the python interpreter is free to download from the internet when was kida book like this one taught me how to write my first programs and games it was fun and easy now as an adulti still have fun programming and get paid for it but even if you don' become computer programmer when you grow upprogramming is useful and fun skill to have computers are incredible machinesand learning to program them isn' as hard as people think if you can read this bookyou can program computer computer program is bunch of instructions that the computer can understandjust like storybook is bunch of sentences understood by the reader since video games are nothing but computer programsthey are also made up of instructions to instruct computeryou write program in language the computer understands this book teaches programming language named python there are many different programming languages including basicjavajavascriptphpand +when was kidbasic was common first language to learn howevernew programming languages such as python have been invented since then python is even easier to learn than basicbut it' still serious programming language used by professional programmers many adults use python in their work and when programming for fun the games you'll create from this book seem simple compared to the games for xboxplaystationor nintendo these games don' have fancy graphics because they're meant to teach coding basics they're purposely simple so you can focus on learning to program games don' have to be complicated to be fun