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.

Programming for Entrepreneurs - JavaScript

Programming for Entrepreneurs JavaScript

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As an entrepreneur have you experienced any of the following symptoms?

  • You have a great idea for a website, an app or a video game and you don’t have the coding skills or the money to hire a developer.
  • You can’t move forward with your idea because you don’t have a technical co-founder and you don’t know how to code.

If the answer is yes let me say that you are not alone. I work with many entrepreneurs and I hear these complaints every single week. The causes of this problem as:

  • All startups, no matter their size and industry, need development. From a simple website that shows who they are and what they do, to more complex solutions such as mobile apps and information systems.
  • Developer as expensive and scarce. But you probably know this already :)
  • They say Programming is the new Math as it is an essential skill to get around nowadays and in the works that’s taking shape, but you weren’t taught how to program at school.

At ZENVA, we’ve decided to tackle this problem and bring you a solution by creating our Programming for Entrepreneurscourse series, aimed to give entrepreneurs the basic programming skills and knowledge so that they have higher chances of success with their business ideas.

In Programming for Entrepreneurs – JavaScript we move on to the next step and teach you all the basics of the JavaScript language. JavaScript can be used to create things such as:

  • Interactive websites
  • Mobiles / TV apps
  • Videogames
  • Server-side applications

In this course, we’ll cover the basics of the language and we’ll work though out a mini-project: an interactive prototype of a dating app.

php web application development with symfony online course

PHP Web Application Development with Symfony

Learn how to build PHP webapps following Best Practices with the robust Symfony framework

Symfony is a PHP framework design to build modular, robust and scalable web applications. In this course, we’ll cover the basics of the Symfony framework with the usual Learn by Doing approach found in all other Zenva courses.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to create basic web applications such as the sample workout log demo we make from scratch through out the course.

In particular, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • What is Symfony and what are the benefits of using it in your webapps.
  • Installation and new project creation.
  • Controllers. How to send back HTML or JSON to the user.
  • Routing URLs to specific actions.
  • View and the Twig templating language.
  • Intro to Doctrine ORM.
  • Creating a simple CRUD webapp.
  • Including external assets in your projects.

 

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ios and android html5 apps for beginners

iOS and Android HTML5 Apps Development for Beginners

Make those apps you’ve always wanted, and sell them on the App Store and on the Google Playstore. Get started TODAY.

In this couse, you’ll learn how to create HTML5 apps for iPhone, iPad, Android devices and the web. The course is aimed for both beginners and people with some web development experience.

Some of the topics we cover:

  • HTML, CSS and JavaScript from scratch.
  • HTML5 semantic elements.
  • HTML5 video and audio.
  • CSS3 containers.
  • JQuery from scratch.
  • JQuery Mobile to create professional looking user interfaces.
  • Geolocation.
  • Camera access.
  • Offline storage.
  • Cloud-enable your app: user login, user signup, photo sharing.
  • iOS and Android environment setup and account creation process.
  • Package your phone for iOS and Android using Phonegap.
  • Publish your apps in the App Store and the Google Playstore.

In addition, this course covers the creation of two HTML5 sample apps that you can use as starters for your own projects:

  • Cooking recipie app which uses JQuery Mobile and Offline Storage.
  • Photo sharing app built with JQuery Mobile and Appcelerator Cloud Services to share photos and create users in the cloud.

This course was created by Pablo Farias Navarro, founder and CEO of Zenva (academy.zenva.com). More than 20k people around the world are taking our high-quality courses in HTML5, mobile apps and game development.

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HTML5 Mobile Game Development for Beginners

HTML5 Mobile Game Development for Beginners

This course will guide you through the creation of games that run on iPhone, iPad, Android and Desktop using the open source LimeJS HTML5 game development framework.

The course is a 100% video based tutorial so that you can see in real time how games are created from scratch. Several game demos of different game genres are included in this course.

You’ve always wanted to make your own games. Don’t keep on postponing it. Start TODAY with HTML5 game development for iOS, Android, BlackBerry 10 and Windows 8.

Some of the things you’ll be learning here are:

  • Creating a game that works on iPhone, iPad, Android and Desktop
  • Using the touchscreen in your games.
  • Creating cool animations and transitions.
  • Adding sound to your games.
  • Creating your first spaceship game.
  • Using 2D physics in your games.
  • Creating a virtual pet game from scratch.
  • Creating a farming game from scratch.
  • BONUS TRACK: transform your game to a native app using Appcelerator and sell your game in the App Stores.

More great stuff:

  • We’ll be using 100% free tools and frameworks.
  • Good support.
  • Code snippets at the end of each lesson that you can use as starters for your own games.

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create a html5 game from scratch

Create a HTML5 Game from Scratch (83% OFF)

Making games is a lot easier than you think. Imagine you could learn how to make HTML5 games that run in all browsers and Windows 8 with our HTML5 game development tutorial in only 2.5 hours! Well, that is exactly what this course does.

We know you’ve always wanted to make your own games. Don’t keep postponing it. Start TODAY

Learn how to create a Zelda-like action game demo from scratch using only Javascript and HTML. No experience or previous knowledge is required! Although knowing the basics of HTML and Javascript is recommended.

This HTML5 game development tutorial is aimed for both beginners and more advanced users who may have HTML5 experience but haven’t got into games yet.

Some of the topics you’ll learn by building this game from total scratch:

●  Creating a basic game that can be embed in any website and can be played with just a web browser.

●  Displaying a map and characters on the screen.

●  Moving a player on this map.

●  Using collision detection to simulate the shooting of bad guys.

●  Adding enemies to your games.

●  Adding sound to your games.

●  Putting it all together to create a fun playable demo.

●  All game files, including images and sound are available at the end of each chapter for download.

This HTML5 game development tutorial has been created by Jacob Deichert in collaboration with Pablo Farias. Jacob has created comprehensive HTML5 game dev screencast tutorials on YouTube and other platforms.

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pathfindingjs

Path Finding JavaScript Library

PathFinding.js is an open source JavaScript library that implements, as the name suggests, path finding algorithms into web and mobile HTML5 games that use tile-based maps. The online demo shows

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