This summer, my little brother has been charged with learning to write a game. Being the software guy in our family, my mother asked me to teach him. What better language to work on a game than Python? :) So I purchased a copy of Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame, and he's been hacking away, learning the basics for the past week and a half.

I must say that I'm quite impressed with how well python teaches common programming methods. I'd heard lots about it, but had already had my share of programming experiences long before I got into python. In less than a week, my brother knew enough to write simple madlibs, which is something it took me quite a while to do in Visual Basic.

My brother's blog can be found at http://mattalui.wordpress.com. He'll be publishing what he learns there. His project is registered on Launchpad as Mattalui's Quest.