Read Me First: Android Game Development for Kids and Adults (Free Game and Source Code Included) - Softcover

Lee, Newton

 
9781489580344: Read Me First: Android Game Development for Kids and Adults (Free Game and Source Code Included)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1489580344 ISBN 13: 9781489580344
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

To code, or not to code? Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, and other luminaries appeared in a 2013 YouTube video encouraging everyone to code. At Disney Online, I produced and engineered over 100 games between 1996 and 2006. While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology. With the help of this book, parents can sit down with their kids and create a game with their favorite songs on their Android smartphones or tablets using professional tools. Teachers and students can follow the step-by-step instructions with troubleshooting in the book to learn how to create a commercial game and publish it in the Google Play Android Market and the Amazon Appstore. Using the commercial mobile game Be.X as an example, complete source code is included in the book. You may freely use, modify, and adapt the game source code for any commercial and noncommercial software development projects. This book is meant to inspire and motivate novices. It does not teach Java programming. Instead, it aims to instill curiosity and excitement in kids and adults about software game development.

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About the Author

Newton Lee graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science, and he earned a perfect GPA from Vincennes University with an A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate in Computer Science.

He is the coauthor of "Disney Stories: Getting to Digital"; author of the "Total Information Awareness" book series including Facebook Nation and Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity; and coauthor/editor of the "Digital Da Vinci" series including Computers in Music and Computers in the Arts and Sciences. He is the creator of the "Read Me First" book series.

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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1489580344
ISBN 13 
9781489580344
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
150