The conference UCAM Smart Campus hosts of the morning conference "Ingredients of Successful Aplicativos"
The developer has outstanding university education as a key to success: "You can learn some things interest at home, but it's much easier when you have a training base"
Now immersed in developing an application to measure the speed of a shot on goal next to Real Madrid, and in the future with FC Barcelona
Jere Erkko, creator of Angry Birds, one of the games on smartphones and tablets celebrity world, this morning visited the auditorium of the Catholic University of Murcia to deliver a lecture entitled "Ingredients of Successful Aplicativos" under the days UCAM Smart Campus.
In it, he stated that "success can come out of Murcia or the North Pole, the important thing is that the developers are open-minded to try different things."
During the conference, attendees were able to see the keys for Erkko are necessary when developing successful applications.
"There are several," he said.
"One is to collect something that can improve or enhance For Angry Birds are the stars In any case, the important thing is to start... Angry Birds was game number 52 we developed Rovio never know where it will be success. "
Also said that a game "has to be easy to start and hard enough to continue."
Another important point that Erkko mentioned while in the UCAM has been the university education.
"It's very difficult for developers to have sufficient knowledge, you have to have a base, and then it is easier to build up. Universities have an important role, either Murcia or Helsinki."
In this regard, he asserted that "you can learn a few things by interest at home, but you learn easier when you have a training base."
As for college recommended to all those career interest in the development of applications, has stressed the ideal as "a combination of technology, multiple languages ​​and multiple platforms control. Should be ready to be multiplatform. Never know what will succeed in the future. "
In addition, Jere Erkko encouraged the students present in his paper to "not be afraid to think differently. Must be adventurous to try something that is not done, that's new."
The success of Angry Birds, a surprise
On success this game has reached around the world, this Finn, who worked at Nokia before co-founding Rovio, said that was a surprise.. "He was not expected it coincided with the rapid growth of smartphones now there are already millions of applications and is more difficult to do something that is different. "
As for the projects you are currently working, Jere Erkko explained that is immersed in a "mobile radar to measure the speed of the shot with Real Madrid.'re Also going to do with Barcelona."
Continued UCAM Smart Campus
The parent birds protagonists of Angry Birds has not been the only one who has participated in the day on Wednesday in the UCAM Smart Campus.
Director Business Development and New Technologies Segittur, Enrique Lancis, has also offered a conference on tourism and technology, which explained that "we now live in a time where technology allows anything, the possibilities are endless ".
Tomorrow is the last day of UCAM Smart Campus, in which researchers from the Catholic University of Murcia will present their project to convert the Campus Los Jerónimos in a 'smart campus'.
Source: UCAM