Udacity HTML5 Game Development Course Now Live!

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This week, Udacity and the Chrome DevRel team launched an HTML5 Game Development course, featuring Colt McAnlis (Developer Advocate, Chrome DevRel), Sean Bennett (Architect, Udacity), and myself. We already have more than 44,000 students enrolled in the course! Read more about the course on the Google Developers blog, on Colt's blog, and for fun check out our first blooper reel.

What's this course about? We've presented all the tips, tricks, tools, and other information needed to make a fast, functional, client-side-only web game. To do this, we broke down the GRITS framework (first shown at Google IO last year) into client and server-side curriculum. This first course focuses entirely on the client side. We are already thinking about new courses on server-side, mobile web, and performance.

To coincide with this launch, we're organizing a series of exciting initiatives:

1. This Thursday, February 14th at 10:30 a.m. PST, we are hosting an introductory Google Developers Live session with special guest Sebastian Thrun (Udacity's CEO). Don't miss this live event! (The moderator is open and you can ask and vote for your questions on the GDL page.)
   
2. We’ll be running a weekly live-streamed study group for the first several weeks of the course on Monday nights at the Google office in San Francisco.
   
3. We are also hosting a contest where students can win cool prizes such as a spot in a future Udacity training course.
   

Thanks!

—Peter Lubbers

Author, Pro HTML5 Programming, 2nd Edition (Apress, 2011)