Bryson Payne

Online Course Instructor

Most Recent Review

Very good for my son he is only 9 years old!
- Review by Lee Phillips on JavaScript for Kids: Code Your Own Games and Apps Age 8 & Up

Instructor Bio

Dr. Bryson Payne is a TEDx speaker on "How to Teach Kids to Code", the author of theAmazon #1 New Releaseand Top 10 Best Selling children's programming book,Teach Your Kids to Code (Python), (2015 -translated intosix languages), as well as Learn Java the Easy Way(2017), and Hacking for Kids (2020), published by No Starch Press.
He is the Director of the Center for Cyber Operations and a tenured fullProfessor of Computer Science at the University of North Georgia, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and holds the elite SANS|GIAC GPEN, GRID, and GREMcertifications, among other industry certifications.
Dr. Payne is also an award-winning onlineinstructor with over 50,000 students to his credit, from more than 160countries.Dr. Payne has multiple best-selling courses on Udemy, and both Real-World Ethical Hacking andLearn Java the Easy Way havebeen rated in the top 10% of allUdemy courses!
Dr. Payne has taught computer sciencesince 1998, served as the University's first Department Head of Computer Science, and isthe foundingDirector of the Center for Cyber Operations Education at UNG. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia State University and has published articles in scholarly and industry journals, in addition to speaking regularly at regional and international conferences in computer science,cybersecurityand IT leadership. He has been featured inCIOmagazine,Campus Technology, and theWall Street Journal.
Dr. Payne has been programming computers for over 30 years; he sold his first paid program toRUN Magazine(Commodore 64) for their Magic" column in 1985, for $10. In addition to his love for technology, Dr. Payne speaks Spanish and French, and is conversational in Russian and Mandarin Chinese.