Philip Conrod & Lou Tylee’s Textbooks Win In 8 Different “Best Books Of All Time” Award Categories in 2019!
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In June 2019, Eight of our Award Winning Textbooks were named the “Best Books of All Time” by BookAuthority!
Our Learn Java GUI Applications, Programming Games with Java, and Java Homework Projects Textbooks Sweep the Best 3 Java Swing Books of All Time Awards:

Our Java Textbooks also placed in the “Best Java Books of All Time”, “Best GUI Books of All Time” and the “Best User Interface Books of All Time” categories:




Our Visual Basic and Databases was also Named #1 in the 60 Best Databases Books of All Time:

Exodus Vigil PC Game – Beta Demo – Based on the Exodus: God of the Slaves Historical Christian Novel by Kris Murray
/in News/by Philip ConrodNew Unity 3D C# Game Design & Development Tutorial Beta Planned for Fall 2019!
/in News/by Philip ConrodKidware Software is planning to publish it’s biggest and most ambitious 3D game design and programming tutorial textbook ever in 2020 for schools! It will be replacing our older forms based 2D graphics tutorials, Programming Games with Visual C#, Visual C# and Java. In this tutorial textbook named Introduction to Unity 3D C#: Castle Quest Adventure, not only will you learn how to make a 3D game, but also how to manage all of the things that go into making a game. In this new tutorial textbook, you will build a fun 3D Adventure Game using over 10GB of high quality 3D models, music, animations, and C# source code. This fun game is a role-playing adventure game that takes the player through the story of a new world where castles of the ancients stand tall, through the eyes of a common town guard. The first closed beta class is planned for the 2019-2020 school year and a full public release is planned for the 2020-2021 school year. Click here to follow the development our new tutorial after watching the teaser video below!
Moses’ Rod 3D Bible Adventure Game Tutorial Wins First Place For Existing Code Category at the 2016 Seattle Code For The Kingdom Hackathon!
/in Event, News/by Philip ConrodPhil Conrod Delivers Opening Keynote Session at the 2016 Christian Game Developer’s Conference
/in Event, News/by Philip ConrodKidware Software Updates All Of Our Visual Studio Programming Tutorials to Visual Studio 2015!
/in News/by Philip ConrodKidware Software Updates Their Oracle Java Programming Tutorials to JDK8 & The NetBeans 8 IDE!
/in News/by Philip ConrodKidware Software Updates All Of Our Visual Studio Programming Tutorials to Visual Studio Express 2012!
/in News/by Philip ConrodKidware Software has updated all of our Visual Basic Express and Visual C# Express Programming Tutorials to new Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 Edition! 

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WHO IS PHILIP CONROD?
Philip Conrod provides virtual CEO, CTO, CIO, and CISO services to businesses, school districts and non-profit organizations. He has also authored, co-authored and edited over two dozen technology related textbooks over the past 40 years. Philip holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems and a Master’s certificate in the Essentials of Business Development from Regis University. Philip has also served in various Information Technology leadership roles for companies like Sundstrand Aerospace, Safeco Insurance, FamilyLife, Kenworth Truck Company, Paccar, Darigold and Kidware Software.















