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take control of your computer

Programming lets you do more

You’ve got problems to solve and work to do, but your existing software
doesn’t quite cut it. Even with all those programs on your computer,
you still need to do something different, something specific to you.
If only I could
program Twitter...

How do I get
my website to do
what I want?

Whaddaya mean, that‛s
not the way the website
was programmed?!?

Man, I‛m sooooo fed
up with the “same old,
same old” games.

You want to do more with your computer. You want to take control.
Learning to program gives you the power to create and solve.
Learning to program puts you in charge.
But, how does programming work?
Let’s look at a simple game written in Python.

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