Games By Her - Games programming evening course i Stockholm

We've come together at Paradox to create an evening course for junior programmers identifying as women or non-binary, to teach them the art of games programming in C++. If you have some experience from programming in other languages and you're interested in games programming, then this might just be for you!

Games By Her

Run by game developers working at Paradox Interactive, Games By Her is a 1-night a week evening course that will run over 12 weeks and give beginner and junior developers an introduction to game development. You will learn to make a complete 2D game from scratch using C++. Whether you leave with a desire to move to the games industry or not, you will learn something, have fun, and leave with something new for your portfolio!

This course takes place in Stockholm, Sweden and is aimed at women, and people identifying as women or non-binary who are interested in the games industry. The course material is geared towards junior developers who have some development experience (at least 6 months of experience with any language). If you have more experience than that, you are obviously welcome to apply, but the selection will favor junior applicants. If you have less, we will ask to see some personal projects as C++ is typically not a great language to start with if you have no experience at all.

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Applications

This course is aimed at, and reserved for, women, female identifying, and non-binary people with development experience (in any programming language) who are interested in learning about game development, and are potentially looking for opportunities in the game industry. 

Applicants should already have a couple of months of professional experience under their belt, or a healthy set of hobby projects visible on GitHub. You certainly don't need to be a development wizard of any sort, but you should understand the fundamental concepts of variables, functions, loops and arrays in any programming or scripting language.

If you think you have equivalent experience from your personal or hobby projects, you're also welcome to apply. But please highlight any project you have done that can help us evaluate your level of experience.

We only have 20 spaces on the course, so please tell us a bit about why you are interested in programming and game development. You don't have to be an avid gamer to take part, but you should play some games (mobile, console or PC) or have a particular interest in game and media technology in a related discipline.