firstpaint

Teach absolute beginners to program by drawing pictures.

This is the maintainer-facing README. Learner-facing docs live in curriculum/ (Phase 4).

Status

Phase 1: core static drawing (canvas, shapes, color) on pygame-ce. No animation yet — that's Phase 3. See CLAUDE.md and PHASE0.md for the decisions behind every choice.

Quick check (developer)

uv sync
uv run pytest
uv run python examples/sun.py

What a learner writes

from firstpaint import *

canvas(600, 600)
background("#fdf6e3")

fill("#e67e22")
no_stroke()
circle(300, 300, 120)

show()