Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python
Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python (or IYOCGwP “eye-yawk-gwip”) is a book (hopefully a series of books) that teaches Python game programming for kids in the 9 to 12 year old age range. Instead of teaching principles and concepts, each chapter has a complete example of a game and its source code up front, and then provides explanation for the code.
The main website is
http://pythonbook.coffeeghost.net
The book is freely available to copy and distribute for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons license. Any feedback or comments would be greatly appreciated.


Great Idea! I wish I’d thought of it! ;-)
It’s been a long time since I was typing in those games from Creative Computing books. The dragon game reminds me of hunt the wumpus.
Comment on June 18, 2008 @ 11:56 am