While this started off pretty good, I found myself losing his attention quickly as he just wanted to play the game. I had first started in 6th grade with a book that controlled Minecraft using Python. It was an absolute joy to complete this book with my 7th grade son.

It is bittersweet though when you finally understand the design, but I don’t think it is the best guide, certainly not for (average) kids.

Great explanation in the beginning but the games in the end are a just too tough for beginners ,it gives people false sense of hope they would really do that after reading the first half of the book. ), you will need to figure all these out first before you are able to understand the code. But I am very disappointed that a lot of basic concepts on data structures are not explained before the game examples ( can object be set as parameters, can variable in for loop can be set as variable for other objects ,can object in list be used in object variable in other class etc. I am still not confident I fully understand the design but I am able to extract some smart coding ideas and concepts onto my note. The 2 games especially the last one is where I spent most of my time on in this book. Similar to “ JavaScript for kids”, in the first half of the book the explanation is great for beginner, but then it suddenly accelerates in difficulties and when we get to the 2nd games examples the author had skipped so many steps and concepts it’s really not easy to follow. One thing that might kill you! At the last of the explanation when the writer put all the code of the example together, the code isn't commented and also not numbered! you will be confused, especially when you get to the last game, the writer put the code altogether at the end, and you will try to get work until you get crazy! and as you know python interpreter needs clear indentation to start interpreting your code, the thing here is you mostly can't copy and paste the code :3 because you'll get wrong indentation in your text editor :v

Mostly reminds you with the common mistakes you might make while writing some piece of code. A good way in explaining the code, it shows you what's before it, what precautions you should take. The book is very easy and greatly organized so that you can get things done without being distracted with a missing point or something like that you might find in other books. A great introduction for absolute beginners.

Python for Kids by Jason R. Briggs