You may have just seen the CLOT announcement on the blog here: http://blog.warlight.net/index.php/2012/12/announcing-custom-ladderstournaments-framework-clot/

Some of you will be thinking "Boy, that sure sounds cool, but it's too bad I don't know how to code." Well, you play WarLight, so you're already good at logical thinking - you should learn!

I wanted to take this opportunity to plug Khan Academy since they rock, and they have a great series on learning Python from scratch for new programmers. Python is the same language that CLOT uses. You can watch it here: http://www.khanacademy.org/science/computer-science

I won't lie - there's a lot to learn, so it won't be a quick process. But if you're the kind of person that uses computers a lot, you won't regret it. You'll find all sorts of uses for writing programs for the rest of your life.

In fact, writing extensions to games is what fueled a lot of my learning to program in my teen years. Fire up the videos above and give it a shot!

Khan Academy - absolutely a great source for pretty much anything. This is really interesting.

nice! lots of potential for cool stuff in there.
wish i can find some free time to try out some ideas. :)

Too bad I can't figure out how to install Python and PyScripter. I downloaded the first, and it gave me a .zip file with lots of files in it. And it says you can't download the second before you download Python itself. Help?

You need to unzip the .zip file. There are various different tools for unzipping availiable for download online for free.

I know, but if I do that, I get a lot of different files.

Moros, you should use the Python installer instead of the zip package. Assuming you're using Windows (since you didn't specify otherwise), just go to http://www.python.org/download/ and click Python 2.7.3 Windows Installer

"Python could not be properly initialized. We must quit."

It says that when I want to open Pyscripter.
And I'm on Windows 7.

it's not installed properly then. did you run the installer Fizzer pointed to?
you might have installed python 3.3 and pyscripter be looking for 2.7

or you're running the downloaded and not installed pyscripter instead of the one bundled in the installer.

if you already know how to program but haven't touched python recently, this will put you up to speed in a jiffy:
http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/index.html

Thanks for the links fizzer,
I have no programming knowledge but all hopefully grab the concept of python.

Maybe ones I am done watching all the videos and doing all the exercises all take crack at the CLOT.

Great update, Thanks again.

So i went to khanacademy and started watching videos, but i have no idea what its talking about, do you need to watch them in order?

never mind that last post, it makes much more sense now, but where can i download python, do i have to pay for python?

forgot to mention im using a mac

sorry for the quadruple post, but once again i figured it out

"i have no idea what its talking about, do you need to watch them in order?"
hahahahahhahaahah

Cool thread.

Udacity.com is another great way to learn Python - and MIT gives away their Intro to Computer Science class (which teaches Python) for free online @ http://ocw.mit.edu

So i have started the videos on khan academy, and i am having trouble because on the program he is using there is 2 areas one at the top that is just blank and then one on the bottom that starts each line with >>>. I cant seem to do some of the things he is doing, is there a program like this for the mac because mine only has the >>> . if there is please provide a link for the download

http://www.python.org/getit/mac/