Chapter     1

Say Hello to My Little Friend: The Corona SDK

When did you start programming? What first piqued your interest? If it became a lifelong passion, as it has with me, then you almost certainly have an interesting story to tell when answering that question.

My own story is in many ways unique in that I was most definitely in the right place at the right time at a special point in human history when personal computers were just coming into existence and, more importantly, just starting to enter the public consciousness. Through a bit of luck, coupled with a drive to do something I found enthralling, I was propelled down a very specific road in life that I am happily still traveling.

You see, as David said in Prometheus, “Big things have ...

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