I third this, My highschool has classes that use this and it works great. Its simple enough to start using with zero programming knowledge, but powerful enough to make decent 2d games. It allows you to start out without writing any code, but it leaves the option open.

Our computer lab was awesome until the district fucked it up. The computers all autoreimaged themselves from a seperate partition on reboot, so you could fuck it up hard and nothing bad would happen. Everyone was admin. It worked great! Need a program installed? No problem! Seriously, do this.

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." -JFK

You know there's a problem when an ALGORITHM called "Carmack's Reverse" is patented by someone other than Carmack.

while (today != tomorrow) { visit_site(slashdot); } do_work();

I just got a new psu for precisely this reason. a $30 psu for 485, where my system really needs 500 didn't seem like a good idea..