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@DHFBaltimore

Youth Opportunites
w/
Mobile Game Dev
Shawn Grimes
@shawng

Who Was I?

Help Desk
Web Developer
Database Admin
Network Engineer
Windows Server Admin
Linux Server Admin
Firewall and IDS Admin
Security Engineer
Security Architect
Mobile App Developer
Co-Author of 2 (soon to be 3) published
books

@DHFBaltimore
A Brief History of
Mobile Development
March 2008

January 2007

June 2007

Apple releases SDK

<100 Full Time 

iPhone is released
to allow apps 

Mobile App Developers
on iPhones
A Brief History of
Mobile Development
2011

5 colleges offering

courses in mobile 

development

February 2012

300,000+ 

Mobile App Developers

So where did all 

these developers learn?
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Mobile App Development

•

Reset the formal requirement for education

•

Anyone who could learn it quickly could become
successful

•

More worth was put into what you’ve done instead of
where you went to school
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Start Today

You have no rent, no family to support, and no medical insurance to pay for. You have more free time now than you ever will. You can spend it sleeping
and playing video games. Or you can spend it learning to create your own video games.
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Case Study
Colin Francis
•

Graduated HS in 2011

•

Taught himself iPhone Dev

•

Used the free Stanford courses in
iTunes U
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Colin Francis
•

Currently in 2nd year of
college

•

3 published books

•

Job offer from Microsoft
and many more
@shawng

Naveen Sidhu

•

Age: 19

•

Self taught

•

Started Pixel Cube Studios

•

10 Mobile Games

•

In 2010, most downloaded
free app, over 2 million d/ls

@DHFBaltimore
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Charlie Fish
•

CEO: Images by Kids
•

App-Whiz.com

•

13 years old

•

6 iOS apps in the App Store

•

Self taught, started at 11
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Santiago Gonzalez

•

Owner, Hicaduda

•

14 years old

•

12 iOS apps

•

Has experience with 10 programming languages
@shawng

Bella

•

11 years old

•

Currently working on second
mobile game

•

Started developing mobile
games this past summer

@DHFBaltimore
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Other Disruptive
Technologies
@shawng

3D Printing

•

January 2009, Makerbot
releases Thing-O-Matic

•

Jobs created in 5 years?

@DHFBaltimore
@shawng

Darius McCoy

•

16 years old

•

3D Printing custom phone
cases

•

Started his own company
called Frozen Lava

•

Learned about 3D printing 6
months ago

•

Has built 4x 3D printers in 6
months

@DHFBaltimore
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Where Is 3D Printing Going?
•

Assistive Technology/Prosthetics

•

Tools

•

Customized/Individualized objects

•

Clothing?

•

Organs?
Aerial Robotics
Wearable Tech
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

“You are never stagnant. You are either
growing and maturing or falling behind.”

–Nick Selby
Learn How To Learn New
Things

Don’t be afraid of not knowing something.
Be confident that you can learn something when you need to learn it.
@shawng

Consume

@DHFBaltimore

<

Create
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Start a portfolio!!

On a job interview, I have never been asked where I went to college or even what degree I have…I am always asked what apps or software I’ve worked on
in the past or for samples of code that I’ve written.
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Time

The Path To Success

Effort
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Time

The Path To Success

Effort
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Tangible Tips
Explore open source programming
GitHub (great place for a developer portfolio to start)
Explore Linux (web servers, security and so much more)
Raspberry Pi
www.StackOverflow.com to help you find answers
Practice typing with high accuracy and high speed
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Getting Started
Mobile Tutorials




•

www.RayWenderlich.com - so many tutorials!

Game Artwork
• www.VickiWenderlich.com
• art packs for games
• free to use w/ attribution
!

Audio
• www.soundjay.com
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

CORONA SDK

RESOURCES
@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

Corona Resources

!

CoronaLabs.com/resources
docs.coronalabs.com
BurtonsMediaGroup.com (Dr. Brian Burton)
PacktPub.com (Michelle Fernandez)
http://www.coronalabs.com/products/books
forums.coronalabs.com
@shawng

Getting Started

Digital Harbor Foundation
•

Mobile Game Dev Course

•

V2 to be released Jan 2014

•

Pre-order now

•

http://www.digitalharbor.org/
lab/course/mobile-gamedevelopment-v2/

@DHFBaltimore
@shawng

Who am I?

•

A Technologist

•

A Maker

•

A life-long learner

•

@shawng

@DHFBaltimore

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