My lad is 12/13 - he has programmed using Scratch and Python which was covered at school and also from books i bought for home programming.
He is interested in the programming side, but i am stuggling to keep him occupied at home and i can see he is drifting more and more into playing games rather than understanding how they work and creating his own games - which he used to do!
I am not expecting this course to make him a programmer/designer etc, but hoping this will pique his interest and show him some other languages.
My question is, to the SME's is the stuff taught in this course relevant to todays market? I think if he had a target, goals and an end product, he should enjoy it and learn some skills along the way - for £29 i think it is worth a try.
https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/school-of-game-design-2#tips
Thoughts?
He is interested in the programming side, but i am stuggling to keep him occupied at home and i can see he is drifting more and more into playing games rather than understanding how they work and creating his own games - which he used to do!
I am not expecting this course to make him a programmer/designer etc, but hoping this will pique his interest and show him some other languages.
My question is, to the SME's is the stuff taught in this course relevant to todays market? I think if he had a target, goals and an end product, he should enjoy it and learn some skills along the way - for £29 i think it is worth a try.
https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/school-of-game-design-2#tips
Thoughts?