Welcome!

• Getting to know each other
• About this course
• Intro to Python
• Quick Setup
• Our first crappy little game

• Hey I'm Vitali, and I'm a geek :)
• Work @ Volicon, as a "front end developer".
• I work with C, Python, Java, Javascript, AS3.
• Also a little bit in PHP, LUA , C++... 
• Newbie tutor :)

• Our goal is to set you on the "right" track.
• Game are not just fun to make, but are also challenging!

• We'll try to cover software development basics in a fun way.
• We will focus on the pragmatic side (lots of code!).
• We will learn together, I'm a newbie teacher and I need your feedback... :) 
• Oh and it's beta, so don't except stuff to work ...

1. Intro & Setup
   
2. Programming with Python (part 1)
   
3. Programming with Python (part 2)
   
4. Intro to Object oriented programming.
   
5. Creating games with pygame (part 1).
   
6. Creating games with pygame (part 2).
   
7. Basic debugging and development tools.
   
8. Intro to computer architecture.
   
9. Advanced python & pygame.
   
10. OOP & software design (part 1).
    
11. OOP & software design (part 2).
    
12. Projects demo and cake :)
    

• First developed in 1989, by "Guido van Rossum" 
• Was named after  Monty Python.
  
• Currently @ version 3.3

 HashMap<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<String, Integer(); map.put("foo", 42); map.get("foo");

• Tons of implementations of the VM:
• Jython
• Iron Python
• CPython
• Stackless Python
• ...

• Used everywhere:
• Web development (Django, flask, zope)
• Game scripting (Panda3D, Blender)
• Desktop Applications (Ubuntu utils, etc...)
•  Tons of other cool places... 

• HUGE open source community.

• To Learn:
• Many open source books
• Great documentation 

apt-get install python python-pygame ipython