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At first glance I could not find any license for this project.

I would volunteer to help update the text to correctly describe how variables are handled in Python. In the text the idea of variables as containers holding values is incorrect. This approach completely falls apart when mutable types are used, particularly when passed to functions. Students moving on from this text (using the "containers" concept) have difficulty shifting their thinking to the "pointers to objects" idea. Mutable vs. immutable types should also be introduced.

I am recently retired from teaching programming for 40 years.

Thank you, Peter

There are things like def update and arcade.start_render() in examples.

Probably a good idea to encourage on_update and clear(). This will break in 2.7.

https://arcade-book.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chapters/08_functions/functions.html

def add_numbers(a, b):
    print(a, b)
print_number(11, 7)

the def and function call should be the same
However is the readthe docs the current version of this file in github?

The URL https://repl.it/community/classrooms/174286 does not work, unfortunately. It's a 404 error.

For mac users to utilize sounds in python arcade you need to have access to the cocoa framework (i'm not 100% sure why)I was able to work around this by downloading PyObjC... Users with pip installed can just run the following command.

pip3 install PyObjC

P.S - Thanks so much for this book and library, I have been working through it and having a blast.