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Too confused
In response to Jack Kendrick, in issue 275 “Pyconfusion”, this attitude is something that bugs me, especially with Windows users who bash Linux, just because you have to sometimes use some grey matter to use it. I see it all the time on forums and Facebook groups. My answer to them is RTFM (Read The Fine Manual) or the modern-day equivalent:
Google, say “install pygrame”. Linux is an Operating System (OS). Python is a programming language. You can install Python on Windows and you install
pygame
(which stands for Python Game as .py – the extension for a python file) the same way on both Linux and Windows.
My advice to Mr Kenrick is that he starts off with Scratch or Google’s blocky (see page 44, “A Parent’s Guide to Programming” in LXF275) and then move on to Python. Then again, he could visit his nearest Coder Dojo and ask one of the kids to tutor him.