Learn to Code with Games - Quick, John M.

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Résumé :
A novel approach, this book makes coding accessible to a broad audience. Structured as a series of challenges that help you learn to code by creating a video game, each chapter expands and builds your knowledge while providing guidelines and hints to solving each challenge. Avoiding jargon as much as possible, it shows you how to see coding as a way of thinking and problem solving rather than a domain of obscure languages and syntaxes. Its practical hands-on approach enables you to easily grasp basic programming concepts....

Biographie:
John M. Quick is an expert in the strategic enhancement of motivation, learning, and performance. He collaborates with industry and university clients to strategically solve the greatest challenges in motivation, learning, and performance. John earned a PhD in Educational Technology at Arizona State University, where he researched enjoyment and individual differences in games. He created the Gameplay Enjoyment Model (GEM) and Gaming Goal Orientations (GGO) model to guide the design of effective game-based solutions. John has released more than 15 digital games. His games focus on innovative topics, such as learner engagement, employee performance improvement, and cutting-edge interfaces. John has over 5 years of classroom experience at the higher education level. He has instructed courses on computer literacy, game design, and programming at Michigan State University (East Lansing), Arizona State University (Tempe), and DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore.

Sommaire:

Our Hero Is Stuck! Characters and Characteristics. The Bounds of the World. Sprinting and Sneaking. Collectables. Spawning Objects. Taking Inventory. A Party of Heroes. Generating a Tile Map. Spawning Objects on a Tile Map. Level Generation. Game State Management. Gameplay. Appendices.