(how badly do I wish that there had been something like this when I was young, or that we lived close enough to PGH to take the kids to this...)

Just as true literacy in English means being able to write as well as read, true literacy in software demands not only knowing how to use commercial software tools, but how to create new software for oneself and others. Today, most people are still woefully limited in their ability to create their own software. They would like to make their own software tools, but think that programming is “too hard.” The problem, it turns out, may not be programming itself so much as the ways in which it is conventionally taught.

Through TNG we hope to 1. Lower the barrier to entry for programming by making programming easier.Entice more young people into programming through tools that facilitate making games.

Learning to program computers should be fun, for adults and children alike. RUR-PLE is an environment designed to help you learn computer programming using the language Python.