Code the Classics Volume 1

224 Pages·2019·37.031 MB·English

by  David Crookes, Andrew Gillett

Devised by Russell Barnes
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First published in 2019 by Raspberry Pi
Trading Ltd, Maurice Wilkes Building,
St. John's Innovation Park, Cowley Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0DS
Publishing Director Editor
Russell Barnes Phil King
Sub Editor Design
Nicola King Critical Media
Illustrations Head of Design
Dan Malone Lee Allen
Devised by CEO
Russell Barnes Eben Upton
ISBN 978-1-912047-59-8
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GAMES
Eben Upton co-founded the
Raspberry Pi Foundation, and
serves as the CEO of Raspberry
Pi (Trading), its commercial
and engineering subsidiary.
David Crookes began his
He is the co-author, with Gareth Halfacree, of the
career as a journalist in
Raspberry Pi User Guide; with Jeff Duntemann and
1994 as a freelance writer
others, of Learning Computer Architecture with
for Amstrad Action. He has
Raspberry Pi; and with his father, Professor Clive
since written and worked for
Upton, of the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary.
regional newspapers, The Independent, BBC Radio 5
Live, gamesTM, Wireframe, and Retro Gamer,
among many others. His previous books include
Sean M. Tracey calls himself a
Cloud Computing In Easy Steps and Facebook
technologist, which is his way
for Beginners In Easy Steps. He also curated
of saying he hasn’t decided
Videogame Nation, an exhibition celebrating the
what he wants to do with
rise of gaming, which toured the UK.
technology yet – other than
everything. Sean has spent his career trying to
avoid getting 'proper' jobs, and as such has had a
Andrew Gillett grew up
hand in making a variety of fun and interesting
with early computers such
projects, and every now and then he writes a book
as the ZX Spectrum, and was
about those things too.
writing simple programs from
the age of five. Since then,
he’s worked on games that have sold millions,
Dan Malone has been
including Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, Kinectimals, and
involved in the UK games
Kinect Disneyland Adventures. After working in the
industry for over 30 years
games industry for 13 years, he is now a computer
and has been writing stories,
science/programming tutor and indie developer.
games, designing characters,
and drawing comics for most of his life. His
work includes design and graphics on games
Liz Upton was an award-
from Speedball 2 and The Chaos Engine
winning journalist before
(Amiga/Atari ST) to character model design on
becoming one of the
SSX Blur (Nintendo Wii).
co-founders of Raspberry
Pi along with her husband
Eben. She now works as Executive Director of
Allister Brimble is a music
Communications at Raspberry Pi. Liz plays the
and sound designer and has
piano, collects and restores old fountain pens,
created the audio for over
and has an uncanny knack of getting toddlers to
400 video games since the
consume vegetables.
early 1990s. During his time
in the industry, Allister has worked on almost
every format, from the early 8- and 16-bit home
Contributors
computers to hand-held devices and beyond, into
today’s current consoles, phones, and tablets.
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