Shivam - Computer programming tutor - Kingston upon Thames
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Shivam - Computer programming tutor - Kingston upon Thames

One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Shivam will be happy to arrange your first Computer programming lesson.

Shivam

One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Shivam will be happy to arrange your first Computer programming lesson.

  • Rate 80AED
  • Response 2h
  • Students

    Number of students accompanied by Shivam since their arrival at Superprof

    50+

    Number of students accompanied by Shivam since their arrival at Superprof

Shivam - Computer programming tutor - Kingston upon Thames
  • 4.9 (39 reviews)

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  • Computer programming
  • Programming languages
  • C++
  • C#
  • Video game programming

Award-Winning Game Developer & Game Programming Tutor • Assisting Ages 6-60+ since 2021 • Small Teams Game Projects Consultant • GCSE and A-Levels Projects Mentor • Let's navigate the AI Age together!

  • Computer programming
  • Programming languages
  • C++
  • C#
  • Video game programming

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One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Shivam will be happy to arrange your first Computer programming lesson.

About Shivam

Ahoy, bright student! I am Shivam (or Shiv, if you prefer that!).

You can find me at vivraan[dot]coolpage[dot]biz.

I have worked as a professional game developer in various domains like XR, PC war gaming, mobile hypercasual time-wasters, and as a hobbyist since 2018. I've been teaching since 2021, starting during the pandemic times!

I co-developed Neosphere Interactive's "1971: Indian Naval Front", which received an Epic MegaGrant and the Game of the Year 2023 award from the India Game Developer Conference.

I have over two years of experience supervising children and teenagers in extracurricular settings. My part-time work in the UK involved teaching computer programming using educational game-making platforms Scratch and MakeCode.

I have also conducted game development workshops with other seasoned industry professionals in India and the UK. I have completed an MSc in Game Programming at Kingston University, London.

I have handled code bases with several thousand lines of code and created tools that make people's lives more tolerable, and I would feel nothing short of joy to see you do something that gives you a similar level of fulfilment!

My goal is to disseminate the art and science of programming: the knowledge, skills, and processes that have become my own through my passionate engagement with programming in general and making games in particular, all for you!

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Currently on top of:
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LANGUAGES := C++, Python, Zig

ONLINE AND EDUCATIONAL := Scratch, mBlock, Microsoft MakeCode and Minecraft Education Edition (which also uses MakeCode)

ENGINES := Unity, Godot Engine (community docs maintainer)


I need to revise:
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LANGUAGES := C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java/Kotlin, SQL, Rust, Go

ENGINES := Unreal Engine


I don't yet offer (but plan to):
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LANGUAGES := any functional programming language like haskell,
OCaml, F#, Erlang, etc.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent assisted workflows and loops (learning these myself with a modicum of disgust and morbid curiosity :| )

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!!!!!== I DO NOT OFFER ROBLOX STUDIO LESSONS TO UNDER 18s ==!!!!!
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Any other language, framework, toolchain, or ecosystem? Happy to discuss!


What seems to work right now (improving this continuously!):
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KIDS -> a relevant IDE or scripting environment (Compiler Explorer at godbolt[dot]org is great to start with!), alongside MakeCode or mBlock, then entering in Unity or Godot. Some kids prefer to skip steps!
(concepts: game loops, events, interactions, sequencing, fire-and-forget parallel tasks, basic narrative design, sprite animations, basic game maths, and much, much more!)

GAME ENGINES => Usually Unity or Godot, but the workflow is similar to any engine with a GUI: navigating the UI, exploring different tools, and scripting behaviour. Tasks are highly customised per student!
We go into advanced concepts such as networked multiplayer, advanced physics, performance optimisation, and other integrations as needed.

OTHER => ??? (Drop me a text!)

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I prefer a structured approach to lesson planning, so any syllabus, marking rubric, job role description, or other requirement you provide me is factored into our plans! I usually carry out 1-hour sessions, but 4-hour sessions work similarly (except we must all take breaks!).

Expect egregious use of the whiteboard, onscreen drawings, or MS Paint. :P

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  • 80AED

Pack prices

  • 5h: 373AED
  • 10h: 671AED

free lessons

The first free lesson with Shivam will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.

  • 30mins

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  • 80AED/h

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  • Can you tell us about your first experience using a computer?

    It is hard to point a finger at it but it was probably right after I had watched my elder brother play a video game that I had stared at from his side on one of our old Windows 98 or XP computers. I got fascinated and started using Paint and Microsoft PowerPoint to create little pieces of art, most of which I lost along the way, followed by playing some video games on my own.
  • What is the technological evolution that has marked you most and what will be, in your eyes, a turning point in this field?

    Whoever made the first Graphics API probably receives the tip of my hat -- without that, I wouldn't have been into video games and the creative aspects of my existence wouldn't have been realised.
  • Explain your expertise, your interest in it and, more broadly, its importance in the computer world.

    I program games for a living, which is to say I can help the designer of a game project in bringing the abstract concepts and notions of their game into the more concrete space of a video game software implementation. I then architect the logical systems that constitute the game, and then actually implement the game using a preferred software toolchain and programming environment. I breathe life into the machinations of the dreamer, so to speak.

    I am a part of the Game Development Lifecycle (a kind of Software Development Lifecycle or SDLC) -- I separate the figurative wheat from the chaff in terms of logical components that can be meaningfully implemented in the game, much like a 3D modeller or a music composer for a game handles the visual or audio transmutation process respectively.
  • Do so-called 'visionaries', such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg inspire you or do you have other role models?

    They are each interesting people who set out to achieve different things and in the process gained fame and ignominy in some measure or the other. Perhaps a bit too conspicuously. I tend not to focus on what they did in their lifetime or do now. My role models are people like Casey Muratori, Jonathan Blow, Johns Carmack and Romero, even though I have merely begun scratching the shoulders of these giants from on top of them. Some perhaps less "big" than others, but important to me nonetheless. Interesting, fallible people who decided to give it their all towards making the blessed machine perform wizardry.
  • What would you say to an uncomfortable person in front of a screen who says that "IT is too complicated"?

    Like many things in life, IT is an onion waiting to be peeled, cooked, and eaten. Maybe even ingested raw. The crucial part is peeling onions usually causes people to develop specific tears which are very different from the tears we shed when we are actually sad. These tears help protect our eyes from the burning sensation, even though they're not too good at it. My point is: that it is our natural tendency to look at vast behemoths (or onions) in their face and either give up or freeze on the spot, utterly confused or obfuscated.

    At the end of the day, IT is an onion waiting to be peeled, cooked, and eaten. All you need is a kitchen and some running water (or a bowl if you're conscious) to soak the onion to deal with it peacefully.
  • What are your other passions, related or non-related to computers?

    I enjoy martial arts, cycling, reading, writing poetry, watching anime, binging on web series, and as you may have guessed, cooking in my spare time!
  • What makes you a Superprof in IT?

    Not what, who: it's you. Both in an inspirational sense and an abstract philosophical sense of who grants me the title of Superprof. I am just another game programmer out in the sea, trying to survive. You the gamer, you the student, you the teacher, the parent, the child, the user, the human -- you are what makes me a Superprof. I am just myself, one among us all.
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