Lesson #1 - The Blank Screen

This is the first lesson in the Python and Pygame series.   It teaches the blank screen.   It is the basic foundation of all games.  This requires Python, Pygame, and a text editor.

This lesson was designed for middle school students.

Main concepts:

1. Load and initialize the Pygame library;
2. Set the size of the main screen;
3. Create an infinite loop that runs the game until the player quits the game;
4. Process the event queue;
5. Handle the QUIT event;
6. Update the screen.

  import pygame, sys pygame.init() size = (480, 320) screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size) while True: for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.QUIT: pygame.quit() sys.exit() pygame.display.update()