3D Game Programming for Kids
by Chris Strom · first published 2013
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You know what's even better than playing games? Programming your own! Make your own online games, even if you're an absolute beginner. Let your imagination come to 3D life as you learn real-world programming skills with the JavaScript programming language - the language used everywhere on the web. This new edition is completely revised, and takes advantage of new programming features to make game programming even easier to learn. Plus, new effects make your games even cooler. When you're done, you're going to be amazed at what you can create. Jump right in! Start programming cool stuff on page
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http://pragprog.com/book/csjava/3d-game-programming-for-kids (It's not literally just for kids.)
on “Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly” ↗I want to address one of the books in the Amazon link. 3D game programming FOR KIDS looks overwhelming even to me. The kid me would have looked a few pages and fell right asleep. I understand it isn't for the same age range as Linda's book but wow. This is the problem getting kids to…
on “Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter” ↗Wilton "Beginning Javascript" is the essential bits of JS. Zakas "Prof JS for Web Developers" is comprehensive. Strom "3D Game Programming for Kids: Create Interactive Worlds with Javascript" teaches JS by creating games.
on “Learning JavaScript - my experience and advice” ↗This Google Hangout starts in about 30 minutes: "ICE Code Editor is the JavaScript 3D visualization programming environment used throughout the book 3D Game Programming for Kids. It's written with Dart, the language for scalable web app engineering from Google. In this hangout, prolific blogger, author, and coder Chris Strom takes us on a deep dive into the ICE source code."…
on “Inside the ICE Code Editor with Chris Strom (dartlang)” ↗