StevenSSparks

These are not in a particular order of preference. Yes - I have read/listened to these and more :)

Favorite Audiobooks

I listen to books on long trips in the evening when I need a break from screens. This is a list of some of the books in the audiobook collection, with more than 200 books. I also own many of these in e-books of physical form.

Favorite Non-Fiction

• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution By Walter Isaacson
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition By: Eliyahu M. Goldratt , Jeff Cox
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition
• Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"

StevenSSparks

I am a Manager and Enterprise Technical Architect working on various software development projects for my employer. I work remotely at home and in a coworking space in the CIC. So feel free to say hello anytime.

Most recently, I have been working with my team on

• cloud-hosted enterprise application templates and
• an enterprise scale integrations platform.

Microsoft Store Games

Simple Text Games - https://gist.github.com/StevenSSparks/dcb1401a9838c8bec1b8a53c6b82185d

StevenSSparks

Welcome to

Simple Text Games

These games are a passion project of mine that has grown over the recent years as I have been working hard to increase my skill set supporting a complex Microsoft Technology Stack as part of my role as an Architect. You can always learn more when you code something fun and interesting to you as a developer. You don't need to code a generic app to learn. Games that support logic and puzzle-solvingare excellent learning tools. (View Full File: https://gist.github.com/StevenSSparks/dcb1401a9838c8bec1b8a53c6b82185d)

The Games

I have recently began to push my "Simple Text Games" out on the Microsoft Store as free games. The games using a simple approach but a complexit that is what I hope is unique to games running inside a console app.

Simple Text BlackJack - https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9N7QJXL60JKB

The Blackjack game is a version of standard single-deck Blackjack you might find in many casinos. You don't play for money but for points. I am very proud of