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About the course
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Objectives
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Instructions
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:Tasks:

1. Use this course material, have fun!
2. If you have an idea to add or improve the material, then we won't stop you.
3. Tell other people about this course material.

At the beginning
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In 2012 at the »PyCon DE« in Leipzig an proposal to establish a programming
contest was discussed. It should teach young people Python, our preferred
programming language and one we use in our jobs. Soon, the conference was over
but nothing happened!

In march 2013, Peter Koppatz asked Reimar Bauer at the »Linuxtag« in Berlin
about the progress with the idea of a programming contest. Reimar answered
that nothing had happened since Leipzig!

So Peter presented the idea to combine programming with python and building
3D worlds. Still skeptical, Reimar listened to Peter and he recognized the
huge potential of this idea. And so the stone began to roll. Now the first
competition is over. And its success is motivation to improve the course
material and prepare a version that can easily translated to other languages.

.. index:: Hal of fame, credits

Hall of fame
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People who help to create and improve this course material will be honored in
our list of names (alphabetical order):

- **Anderson, Tony** -- translation
- **Babenia, Anatoli** -- translation, pulishing on read the docs
- **Bauer, Reimar** -- coordinator, author
- **Bestwalter, Oliver** -- translation
- **Boscaini, Maurizio** -- translation
- **Fabula. Thomas** -- community relation
- **Jens, Horst** -- testing, marketing
- **Koppatz, Peter** -- coordinator, author
- **Krasnitzky, Marcus** -- testing  
- **Meijer, Joroen** -- development gui
- **Pratz, Valentin** -- testing, autor
- **Retel, Joren** -- testing, author
- **Stross-Radschinski, Armin** -- marketing
- **Trabucci, Stefania** -- Design
- **Wais, Alexander** -- testing