Game Development for Beginners Workshop 
Instructor
Registration Status
The course spans more than 48 hours covered in one month. 
Time: To be determined.
Location: Embedded Systems Lab, Main Building, Faculty of Engineering, ASU
CHEP Training Credit: 4 weeks
Cost: 1000 EGP (or proof of CHEP training payment) 
(Payment needs to be made in ASU by 1/7/2017)
​​CHEP Students who already paid their training fees, will need to fill a form and four  weeks worth of training will be deducted from their training credit
Eng. Eslam Mounier
Training Description:
The objective of this workshop is to enable you to build a  simple 2D Graphics game in Java programming language. 
Suggested games include : Atari-like games (e.g., Space invaders, Tetris, Pac-Man, snake, etc.) ,puzzle-solving games (e.g., Minesweeper, Solitaire, Sudoku, etc.) , 2 Players board games (e.g.,Connect4,Backgammon,Chess,Checkers, etc.)
During the project the students will acquire/strengthen the following knowledge/skills :
  • Programming using Java
  • Object-oriented programming
  • GUI and graphics programming
  • Exception Handling
  • Multithreading
  • File I/O

This workshop
  1. is a project based workshop .
  2. spans more than 48 hours of sessions + time needed to finish the the workshop project
  3. takes around 4 weeks the first 2 weeks are crash course programming sessions (4hrs+ each session) .
  4. will have the students divided into groups to deliver a project at the end of the workshop , there are a weekly meeting session for every group to discuss their progress and to deliver project milestones .
  5. will have a closing session in which all groups deliver their final project and gets evaluated based on their effort during the 4 weeks .