Introduction:

Read: Human Angle: Making Games And Breakdancing In The Former Ussr: The Story Of Contre Jour

Watch the corresponding video, The Breakdancing Indie, be prepared to answer the following questions:

1) How does Maksym Hryniv relate learning how to breakdance with learning how to develop games?

2) What game did Maksym copy while learning how to code? How did he avoid getting in trouble?

3) What do you think Maksym feels are the good and bad things about copying a video game?

4) Speculate why games developed in third world countries by developers without formal education can be successful. With access to the Internet, does an aspiring developer need to attend a school to learn how to develop games?

Tools we will use in class:

Internet connected device: Computer or Tablet

code.org

scratch.mit.org

unity3d.com

How programming is like making a cake