Introduction to PyGame - tutorial

Very briefly, Python is a very nice programming language for making things quickly with minimal overhead.
There’s no need to compile code because it’s generally done on-the-fly and unlike C/C++, there’s no need to worry about memory management.  PyGame is a Python multimedia library written on top of SDL that can be used to make games quickly!
1.1 Setting up

1) Download and install the Python programming language software: http://www.python.org/download/.  As of this writing, the latest Python version is 2.5.1.
2) Download and install PyGame from http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml.  The latest version is 1.7.1 and make sure you download the PyGame binary for your operating system that has been compiled for Python 2.5.
3) For writing code, here are a couple of free Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) which I recommend:
• WingIDE  101: http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide-101/installers
• Eclipse:  http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/  (Download the Eclipse classic)
o You’ll also need the PyDev Python plug-in for Eclipse:  http://pydev.sourceforge.net/download.html