Udacity HTML5 Game Development course now live
By Peter Lubbers, Program Manager, Google Chrome Developer
Relations
We just launched our new
Udacity HTML5
Game Development course (CS255). This course focuses on building a game in
JavaScript and is taught by
Colt McAnlis
(Developer Advocate, Chrome Developer Relations),
Peter Lubbers
(Program Manager, Chrome Developer Relations), and
Sean Bennett
(Architect, Udacity). Yep, these guys:
This Thursday, February 14th at
10:30
a.m. PST we are hosting an introductory
Google Developers Live session with
special guest Sebastian Thrun (Udacity's CEO). In this session we will tell you all about the
content of the course and and we will answer your questions live. Make sure you add this live
event to your calendar and tune in on Thursday:
http://goo.gl/ffs8s
(you can ask and vote for your questions there, too).
We have a series of exciting initiatives that we are organizing in parallel. First, we’ll be
running a study group for the first several weeks of the course. The study group will be
hosted at Google’s San Francisco office, and Colt, Peter, and Sean will be there to answer any
questions you might have and to help you out with the course material. If you don’t live
around San Francisco, or can’t make it for whatever reason, don’t worry, because we’ll be
livestreaming and recording these study groups.
In addition to the study group, Udacity is also organizing an exciting contest focused around
the course. The goal of this contest is to build your own game using the knowledge and skills
you've gained from the course. You can sign up for the course
here and tune into
GDL on Thursday to find out more about it.
Peter
Lubbers is a Program Manager on the Chrome Developer Relations Team, spreading HTML5
and Open Web goodness. He is the founder of the San Francisco HTML5 User Group--the world's
first and largest HTML5 meetup with over 6,000 members. Peter is the author of "Pro HTML5
Programming" (Apress) and, yes, his car's license plate is HTML5!
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