Posted on 04/29/2015 7:26:19 AM PDT by Borges
Racing across the U.S. in your taco truck, you must fight off animals mutated by fallout from a nuclear war, and you must also turn them into delicious filling for the tacos you sell inside fortified towns. Your mission: Make it to the Canadian city of Winnipeg.
You are Gunman Taco Truck.
Its pretty much only a game that a kid would come up with, says Brenda Romero, a videogame designer for more than 30 years and the mother of Donovan Romero-Brathwaite, the 10-year-old inventor of the game.
And yet GTT already has been licensed by a videogame publisher for Mac, PC, iOS and Android, and may also arrive on consoles. Its quite an outcome for something born of Saturday programming lessons with Donovans dad John, also a videogame designer of note.
Donovans situationaccess to two parents who are both programmersis rare. In fact, in record numbers, children are picking up a skill their parents dont possess: coding.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Thank you for making mention of ‘Scratch’. I found the website for it and will explore it with my youngest son.
Oh no. I wrote some small stuff with it and I was not impressed. It didn’t look like a resume builder.
Credit goes to Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame, not me.
The basic skills required to create games are the same ones to be a successful software engineer.
I wrote my first game in high school stored on punch tape.
It takes decades to train a good software engineer and starting children out early can make all the difference.
Right now, finding good software engineers who are NOT working is almost impossible.
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