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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.




You can't write Pong in 2 lines of code quite yet

The included Pong weights in at 62 lines (36 after removing comments and blank lines).




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