Over the next two weeks I’m putting together a course that’s going to be aimed at homeschoolers in my area of Alaska. But I’m also going to be making it available online for people who are trying to get into beginning game programming.
After looking at several options I’ve decided that Torque2D is the best overall choice available. Cross-platform, fairly cheap, and powerful.
As soon as I have an outline done I’ll post it, but if you want to be notified ASAP, see the “Stay Torqued!” section on this page and join the list — I’ll be sending out info to that list even before posting here.