[stevejohnson]

Your requirement that there be no external libraries is unfair. It's perfectly valid for a tutorial to start with "Download this package and run the installer," which is easier than any actual programming the reader might do.

There are plenty of great tutorials for PyGame and pyglet. The main issue is that you have to open a terminal.

If you look past Python, Scratch provides a very low barrier to entry for this sort of thing.

[gloob]

Your requirement that there be no external libraries is unfair.

If the question being discussed is "How likely is an 8-year-old to randomly discover programming", it's not unfair in the slightest. Installation of anything is a huge barrier to discoverability.

[whatusername]

Random discovery is so difficult. If only there was an engine of some sort that we could search things with. We could call this engine of search - Bing!