For code, you may want: Worm eating Apple game tron asteroids
or insert clone of iPod / cell phone games they are currently playing. Tutorials: I like pinman, starts with short code , and you get Something in screen. To mess with. http://www.sacredchao.net/~piman/writing/sprite-tutorial.shtml much more verbose series. http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/python/pygame-tutorial/ For NumPy, I like this as an intro / quick reference. http://www.scipy.org/Tentative_NumPy_Tutorial list of more www.pygame.org/wiki/tutorials Software : basically any syntax hilighter at first. You may want to suggest Inkscape.( To make nice iPhone type graphics With less trouble. Than gimp / photoshop. Not saying GIMP is bad, but that inkscape is good for that style ) -- Jake
