Pablo Farias

Award-winning developer, senior technical leader and founder of Zenva, an education platform that teaches coding and game creation to over 1 million learners worldwide. Pablo's current focus include growing and expanding the educational offering at Zenva's B2C and K12 products to better support more students in the learning of programming, AI and digital technologies.

Pablo's work in the technology, gaming and education space includes:

  • The co-authoring of over 500 professional-grade online courses in game development (Unity, Unreal, Godot, Phaser), programming (Python, HTML & CSS, JavaScript, C++), VR/AR and artificial intelligence, as well as over 400 technical tutorials
  • The hands-on development and technical lead of web and mobile edTech applications used by millions of people, that provide stellar learning experiences while performing seamlessly under high traffic conditions
  • The development of VR titles to Steam and the Oculus Store including Insect Resolution VR, Let's Kill Zombies VR and Zenva Sky
  • The active participation of various ICT industry programs including the ACS Professional Partner Program, the Unity Certified Instructor Program, the Intel Software Innovator Program and EduGrowth.

Prior to starting Zenva, Pablo developed various technology products both as an entrepreneur and web development consultant. These included LMS and classroom management solutions, school database systems and even language learning apps.

Before moving into the realm of ICT, Pablo worked as a civil engineer in environmental groundwater simulations using Matlab, Excel and various mathematical models as part of his engineering degree.

HTML5 Game Development by Example – Educational Game

HTML5 Game Development by Example – Educational Game (NEW!)

What if you could turn that great game idea into a real game that could be played on the web, on desktop, iOS, Android and all other platforms?

Stop postponing your dreams and get started TODAY. Learn at your own pace how to create HTML5 games in this course that follows the learn by doing approach.

Through out the course, we’ll make an educational game with the Quintus HTML5 framework, one of the most powerful and lean game frameworks out there that allows you create games that work on phones, desktop, smart tvs and any HTML5 supporting devices!

These are just some of the many things you’ll learn in this course:

  • Creating simple 2D games for the web, mobile and all devices.
  • Working with modules to keep your code organized.
  • Creating 2D tile-based worlds.
  • Using sprites and spritesheets in your games.
  • Collision detection.
  • 2D physics basics.
  • Game flow: game over and restart game.
  • Loading level data from JSON objects.
  • Putting it all together in a simple demo!

This course was created by Pablo Farias Navarro, founder of ZENVA and active contributor to the Quintus open source project, the same library we use in this course.

After teaching over 30.000 people how to code games, apps and websites we’ve gained valuable insight on how online education should be.

We are putting it all in practice on this course and we are sure it will give you the tools you need to get your game ideas up and running.

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Item Hunter by MichaelD

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Programming for Entrepreneurs - jQuery

Programming for Entrepreneurs – jQuery – NEW COURSE

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Websites and HTML5 apps need to be interactive, dynamic and smooth to the end user.

jQuery is the world’s most used JavaScript library to create rich web applications that just feel natural to use. In this comprehensive course you’ll learn how to use jQuery to work with the DOM, use events, effects and animations, AJAX, JSON and to create interactive AJAX forms.

This course is taught by Pablo Farias Navarro, founder of ZENVA and web application developer. Pablo has been using jQuery since 2007. More than 20,000 students are learning how to code with our courses, in particular our Programming for Entrepreneurs course series. This course builds on our previous HTML and JavaScript free courses and takes you to the next step, which is to make your website or HTML5 interactive and dynamic.

Some of the things you will learn in this course:

  • When to use jQuery 1.x or 2.x.
  • CSS selectors and DOM traversing functions in depth to find any element you want.
  • DOM manipulation to add or remove custom HTML content anywhere, whenever you decide.
  • Working with events to create interactive sites.
  • Listen to changes in select dropdowns and checkboxes.
  • jQuery animations and effects. Slide, fade, show, hide.
  • AJAX to load dynamic HTML from the server.
  • Working with JSON from the server.
  • Interactive forms that display extra fields according to the values of other fields.
  • AJAX form submission the easy way.
  • Dealing with cache issues in AJAX requests.

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