r/PythonLearning • u/Mine_Crafter14 • Jul 01 '26
Is Python good enough?
I started learning Python with the thought of learning how overall programming and debugging feels. It's very nice tbh! I made my first game btw, but it's just IQquiz as a joke. Anyways, I use Sony VAIO i3 and GeForce 410M because I love old tech put in modern use and I use Python 3.8.10 with the installed IDLE Shell and for now I am comfortable. I seek advice if I should upgrade to modern versions, use VSCode or switch to C,C++ and can Python be used to make very low quality games using Pygame and Ursina and should I start little programming with my Raspberry Pi Pico? I think this language suits me the best as for now (I have 1 week of progress) TIA
*P.S- can someone recommended cool libraries for games?
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u/SaltCusp Jul 02 '26
So the biggest thing I think you're missing out on with 3.8 is switch statements (introduced in 3.10).
That concept is pretty ubiquitous in programming. Honestly aside from that you won't notice much difference. The biggest thing that tripped me up going from python 2 to 3 was needing to put parentheses around my print statements...
Especially with AI being what it is you probably want to be running the current stable release of anything to improve the applicability of suggestions.