Students at John Burroughs High School will soon learn how to create and develop their own video games for computers and smartphone apps using a new textbook. The textbook is "Learn Mobile Game Development in One Day Using GameSalad" by Jamie Cross, a Pennsylvania-based computer programmer, and it received approval Thursday night from the Burbank Unified school board. Thirty-six copies will be purchased at $36.99 each for a total of roughly $1,500, according to a staff report. Students enrolled in the introductory computer course called Digital Applications will use the textbook as supplemental material to the GameSalad software, a coding program that uses a "drag-and-drop platform" to teach the fundamentals of computer science. The material is geared toward students who lack prior game-development experience.