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John Bura

Empowering learners through innovation and creativity in digital education

John Bura is a seasoned game developer, eLearning innovator, and AI coach with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry.
Dec 1st, 2021
San Diego, California
HTML5 Game DesignHTMLCloud developerGame designGame Design and DevelopmentEducational TechnologyE-Learning TechnologiesLearning Management Systems (LMS)SaaS InnovationDigital Education
John Bura

    About

    John Bura is a seasoned game developer, eLearning innovator, and AI coach with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry. Based in Vancouver, Canada, he serves as the CEO of Mammoth Interactive, where he leads the development of top-ranking games and applications across multiple platforms. His leadership also extends to Devonian Apps, a SaaS company known for delivering high-quality, fast-to-market digital products.

    John is deeply passionate about education through technology. As a celebrated Udemy instructor, he has empowered over 300,000 students worldwide through practical courses on HTML5, Xcode, and game design, with his teaching style widely recognized for its clarity and real-world applicability. His dedication to curriculum excellence was further reflected in his role as a Program Advisor at Centennial College, where he shaped game design education to match industry demands.

    With a rich background in both creative and technical disciplines, John has had his work featured by major industry players like Nickelodeon. As a forward-thinking AI expert, he now coaches businesses on building intelligent, automated infrastructures to increase efficiency and scalability. He's currently developing a cutting-edge tool that automates podcast and video production for content creators, furthering his mission to make innovation accessible.

    Whether building games, coaching teams, or designing AI-powered tools, John blends creativity with technical mastery to drive productivity, foster innovation, and inspire learners around the world.

    "Empowering learners through innovation and creativity in digital education"

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    Courses

    Introduction to Excel
    core

    Introduction to Excel

    Excel is one of the most important software packages in the World with 10s of millions of users and a vast array of applications.  This very brief introduction to Excel helps you get a feeling for what you can do with Excel and why you should develop Excel skills.

    John Bura

    Sep 1, 2024
    1h
    Python Excel
    advanced

    Python Excel

    This course shows you how to use OpenPyXL to automate functions in Excel using Python, automate Excel tasks and build a wide range of Excel projects.

    John Bura

    Sep 1, 2024
    3h 30m
    Excel Visual Basic Applications – Intermediate Level
    core

    Excel Visual Basic Applications – Intermediate Level

    Once you have completed our course on "Excel Visual Basic Applications for Beginners," you are ready for this higher level program which covers many of the intermediate and advanced functions you can write with in Visual Basic within Excel.

    John Bura

    Sep 1, 2024
    4h
    Excel Visual Basic Applications for Beginners
    core

    Excel Visual Basic Applications for Beginners

    This course is an introduction to Excel Visual Basic Applications or VBA. It introduces you to how VBA and you can use the Visual Basic Editor to create procedures (referred to as a macro) with VBA code that accomplishes a task. The macros you will learn to write include "Functions" and "Subroutines."

    John Bura

    Sep 1, 2024
    5h
    Using Python and Excel for Investing in Stock
    advanced

    Using Python and Excel for Investing in Stock

    Stock markets trading activity generates massive amounts of information daily. This course will show you how to use Excel and Python in tandem to pull stock data and related information, calculate returns and establish a portfolio management strategy, predict stock market trends and much more. You will learn the fundamentals of linear regression and how this applies to machine learning, and specifically how to use this with stock market information. With these tools in hand, the instructor will help you to use machine learning to build a linear regression model to predict stock markets, as well as apply deep learning techniques (including applying Recurrent Neural Networks and Keras) to shape and scale your data and your model.

    John Bura

    Sep 1, 2024
    5h
    Amazon Honeycode
    core

    Amazon Honeycode

    This course on Amazon Honeycode jumps you into a use case for Honeycode so you know how it works and how it can be applied practically. Learn to use Honeycode to quickly build mobile and web apps for teams—without programming.

    John Bura

    Sep 1, 2024
    5h
    Excel Pivot Tables
    core

    Excel Pivot Tables

    Excel Pivot Tables are powerful tools to help understand and analyze data.  Pivot Tables help you to group values that aggregates the individual items of a more extensive table within one or more discrete categories.  This course covers the power of Pivot Tables and how they can be used to create sums, averages, or other statistical analysis of grouped values.

    John Bura

    Sep 1, 2024
    4h
    Excel Functions
    core

    Excel Functions

    Innumerable Excel functions exist to help you perform statistical analysis, calculate the time value of money and net present value, transform textual and date functions, and identify/extract data within large data arrays.  This course is designed to help you understand and apply all of these functions.

    John Bura

    Sep 1, 2024
    5h
    Excel Financial Analysis
    advanced

    Excel Financial Analysis

    If you do any type of financial analysis, you know that Excel is the tool of choice and it understanding its nuances is essential for you.  This program helps you to understand how to use Excel in any financial analysis.

    John Bura

    Sep 1, 2024
    5h
    Excel Charts and Visualization
    core

    Excel Charts and Visualization

    This course helps you understand how to use Excel to build a myriad of interesting charts, starting with the basics and moving up to some of the most complex charts imaginable.

    John Bura

    Sep 1, 2024
    2h