Ubuntu calls its releases "Hardy Heron" and "Intrepid Ibex" OGRE3D calls its releases "Eihort" and "Shoggoth" I assume they're following the model of attachin

Ubuntu calls its releases "Hardy Heron" and "Intrepid Ibex" OGRE3D calls its releases "Eihort" and "Shoggoth" I assume they're following the model of attaching a name to each official release. To reply to the rest of your comment, I think it would be more exciting for beginners to learn how to program games. There is a much higher effort:reward ratio, though. You can't write Pong in 2 lines of code quite yet.