Learn Mobile Application Development Textbook
Texas has recently added Mobile Application Development to the approved curriculum for high school students beginning in the academic year 2012-2013. This is a very exciting development for high school students in Texas and, assuming other states follow suit, across the U.S. and potentially the world (okay, yes, I like to think big!).
After carefully combing [...]
ReLIVE 11: Researching Virtual Worlds
I’ve just returned from the ReLIVE 2011 conference (pronounce RelIve as in “It’s a-live!”, not re-leve, as in “I want to live”). ReLIVE is the Researching Learning In Virtual Environments held in Milton Keynes, England at the Open University. This is the second conference, the first held in 2008. ReLIVE (if you had not guessed [...]
Getting Started in Game Development
I am regularly asked by many people, especially high school students, what they need to do/learn to get ready to make games. My advice is don’t wait until your in college to start learning to make games. Start now! With hard work, focus, and dedication, you can have your first game published before you leave [...]
Introduction to iPhone Programming Course
Introduction to iPhone Programming Course
This is my first effort at a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). The material presented is a sequential listing of previous blogs for learning to program the iPhone with xCode.
Lesson 1: Resources that you will need
In this lesson I quickly walk through what you will need to download to get started [...]
iPhone/iPad Programming: How to get started
Lesson 1: Resources you will need:
Welcome to iPhone/iPad Programming 1! To get things rolling you will need a few things:
Book: I am more or less following Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK. I have found it to be well written, and until I finish writing my own textbook on the topic, this is [...]
