Tammy Coron

"Hello, world." My name is Tammy Coron, and I'm a creative professional. Because your time is valuable, I'll get right to the point and share a handful of things I've done — or am currently doing — in the creative-tech space. You can also follow me on Twitter, where I share pictures of my animals, but rarely anything creative-tech related.

Skills

Game Design & Development

Unity | Godot | Unreal Engine
Apple Game Technologies
Character Design | Level Design
Game Design Documentation

Application & Web Development

Swift | Objective-C
C# | F# | Visual Basic
JavaScript | PHP
HTML | CSS

Art & Illustration

Adobe Suite
Affinity Suite
Clip Studio Paint
Moho Animation

Editorial

Author
Developmental Editing
Technical Editing
Copy Editing

Books

Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies

by Tammy Coron

Author

Discover the power of Apple Game Frameworks, Xcode, and Swift by building three exciting games: Gloop Drop — a new twist on a classic arcade game, Val’s Revenge — a roguelike dungeon crawler, and Hog — a social player vs. player mobile dice game.

Hands-on Rust

by Herbert Wolverson

Developmental Editor

Rust is an exciting new programming language combining the power of C with memory safety, fearless concurrency, and productivity boosters — and what better way to learn than by making games. With this book, you'll learn game development skills applicable to other engines, including Unity and Unreal.

Small, Sharp Software Tools

by Brian P. Hogan

Developmental Editor

No matter what language or platform you're using, you can use the CLI to create projects, run servers, and manage files. You can even create new tools that fit right in with grep, sed, awk, and xargs. You'll work with the Bash shell and the most common command-line utilities available on macOS, Windows 10, and many flavors of Linux.

Apple Augmented Reality by Tutorials

by Chris Language

Final Pass Editor

Augmented reality is going to be the next big thing — there’s absolutely no doubt about it. If you want to build realistic and immersive AR experiences for the Apple platform, this book is your golden ticket.

Metal by Tutorials

by Caroline Begbie & Marius Horga

Final Pass Editor

This book introduces you to graphics programming in Metal — Apple’s framework for programming on the GPU. You’ll build your own game engine in Metal where you can create 3D scenes and build your own 3D games.

Android Test-Driven Development by Tutorials

by Lance Gleason, Victoria Gonda and Fernando Sproviero

Editor

A book that teaches you to write sustainable, testable apps, as well as to apply testing strategies to legacy projects via Espresso and UI tests, code coverage and refactoring.

Talks

The Power of Making Connections

RWDevCon 2018

Keynote Speaker

Throughout our lives and our careers, people come and go. Sometimes, it's a quick interaction. Sometimes, we connect on a deeper level and amazing things begin to happen. Discover the power of making connections, and find out how even the smallest interaction can lead to some pretty big life-changing events.

All Roads Lead To Rome

Úll 2016

Storyteller

While reaching our goals brings satisfaction, life happens in the twisted journeys we take to achieve them. It’s those that dare to take an unmarked path that explore the unknown and discover something new..

Wired For Connections

360|iDev 2018

Keynote Speaker

Humans are social creatures. We’re wired to connect. We thrive when we work together. We solve problems when we have help. We create amazing things when we combine our talents. But how do we make these connections? Where do we start?

Podcasts

Roundabout: Creative Chaos

2014-2019

Host

Roundabout: Creative Chaos focuses on creativity and technology by interviewing people who enjoy sharing their creative process and their stories.

More Than Just Code Podcast

Retired Host & Sometimes Party Crasher

Co-Host

MTJC podcast is a show about mobile development. Find out what developers are talking about, what they use to create their apps, and what advice they have to offer.

raywenderlich.com Podcast

Season 1 (2013-2014)

Co-Host

raywenderlich.com Podcast is focused around topics of interest for app developers and gamers. In each episode, we’ll interview a well-known developer, have some tech talk and non-tech talk, and fill you in on what’s new on the website.

Work

The Pragmatic Bookshelf

2017-Present

Managing Editor | Developmental Editor | Systems Support

The Pragmatic Bookshelf has been helping professional developers since 2003. They create timely, practical books on classic and cutting-edge topics to help you learn and practice your craft, and accelerate your career.

raywenderlich.com

2014-Present

Team Member | Retired Team Lead

raywenderlich.com is a community site focused on creating high quality programming tutorials. Thousands of developers and designers of all backgrounds, from all over the world, come to raywenderlich.com to teach and learn.

Creative Bloq

2014-Present

Freelance Writer

Creative Bloq is the world's leading art and design site, and delivers a daily mix of news, advice and inspiration for creative people: including digital and traditional artists, web designers, graphic designers, 3D and VFX artists, illustrators, crafters, and more.

Other Gigs

2014-2022

Contributor | Writer

Over the years, I've worked with a lot of content creators and publishers, such as iMore, Icons8, and LinkedIn Learning (formally Linda.com). I've also worked with Apple, developing content for Apple developers using DocC and other tools.

Personal

Life on the Farm

When I'm not creating content, I'm usually mucking about on my farm.

The Creeps

I'm always working on something, but my tabletop game, The Creeps, is my favorite side project.


Cats

Look, don't get me wrong, I love all of my animals, but cats are my spirit animals.

Hats

I've been told that my brand is my hat, and I think the rumor may be true.