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Subject: Re: My son wants me to teach him Python
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> Despite not want to RTFM as you say, you might set him in front of
> VPython, type

I totally forgot PyGame -- another likely source of self-motivated
learning for a teen programmer.
-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington