About one in every four Brazilians say playing video games. More than a national passion, the games also translate into a promising market, which earned $ 1 billion in 2014 and grew at rates between 9% and 15% over the past five years, according to the Brazilian Association of Games (Abragames).
Thinking about offer even more opportunities for those who want to bet in this segment, TIM Tec – TIM Institute platform that offers free vocational courses at a distance – just launched the course in Games Programming. Taught by Doctor of Science, John Bernardes, the University of São Paulo (USP), the course aims to present the main elements that make up an electronic game and its manipulation techniques, enabling students to develop their own games.
The new course is designed both for students and professionals from the information technology areas or design, with prior knowledge of programming and JavaScript language and who are interested in the development of electronic games. The training includes video lectures, online quizzes and activities, individual exercises and course material support totaling ten chapters.
“The theoretical content will be accompanied by the development of practical examples, along the course, result to develop a simple game in two dimensions in order to facilitate learning and increase student motivation, “explains Professor João Bernardes.
How It Works
TIM Tec is an initiative of TIM Institute based on three pillars:. free software, production courses and partnerships with educational institutions The project began in 2013 with the goal of developing a virtual platform to make available online courses, free and free on technology, produced especially for this purpose and today has more than 12,600 registered students in 17 courses.
Because it is based on the concept Mooc (Massive Open Online Course), anyone can access the tool by http://timtec.com.br/pt/ site and take the courses for free. At the same time, TIM Tec is a free software that can be used by schools, universities, collectives – each institution may have its own facility, fully autonomous platform. The software can be downloaded, installed, modified and improved (since programmers involved know their language).
Today, the platform and the TIM Tec content being shared with Federal Institutes of Education, Science and technology with the support of the Secretariat of Vocational and Technological Education of the Ministry of Education (SETEC / MEC). Partner institutions know the project, install the software, if you will, can add the TIM Tec courses or your own courses to the platform. In early November, about 70 managers and technicians of public institutions of education and network-Tec Brazil and government agencies participated in training to install and use the software on the MEC headquarters in Brasilia.
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