Pygame is actually very easy to learn, and I highly recommend that you spend some time studying how to use it before we start coding. I suggest that you visit the Pygame Documentation on the Pygame website and go through the tutorials listed there.

While it would be ideal if you read through every tutorial, I would consider the Intro, How To Move An Image, Line-by-line Chimp, and the Newbie Guide as required reading. And you probably won’t need to read the surfarray intro for now.

Even if you program or plan to program games using another language, I think that reading these tutorials is not a waste of time – I would even consider it as a good investment – because these tutorials tackle many basic game programming concepts which are not language-specific that you will probably find useful regardless of the language that you use. Since Python is very English-like, it should be easy to transfer the knowledge that you obtain from these tutorials to your language of choice.

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