Practical React Native: Build Two Full Projects and One Full Game using React Native

© Frank Zammetti 2018

Frank ZammettiPractical React Nativehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3939-1_7

7. Time for Some Fun: A React Native Game, Part 1

Frank Zammetti¹ 

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Pottstown, PA, USA

 

Writing books isn’t my day job. My regular job is as an architect (who, thankfully, still gets to hack code a lot) for a large financial firm, and in that capacity, I also do a lot of mentoring of more junior developers. In that role, every so often, I am asked by developers what they can do to improve their skills. My answer is always immediate: make a game! Game programming is, I’ve found, a unique endeavor, because it forces you to confront so many different problems, and it touches on a great many computer science topics, many in subtle ways that you don’t ...