I made a pong game once.
And it was better than this, not gonna lie, but it also took me like four hours just to get the most basic, functional code together. I'm not saying that this is something that needed to be submitted (the genre really has been shit on like crazy and this game doesn't really bring anything new to the table), but the programming is sound, and it's not something that was done in a few minutes. I think that you'd have more success with a pong tutorial (even though that would mean an avalanche of shitty pong games).
If you're looking to improve this (besides the obvious fact that it needs better graphics and more to it), I'd say make the computer AI a little weaker- throw in some random mistakes once in a while.
Man, if you want to see a pong game, you should see this monster I started working on before I finally decided that it was too much and moved on to new things.