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Alfred Thompson's blog about teaching computer science at the K-12 level. Alfred was a high school computer science teacher for 8 years. He has also taught grades K-8 as a computer specialist. He has written several textbooks and project books for teaching Visual Basic in high school and middle school. Alfred is the K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft and is trying to be the Microsoft Education Blogger.

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XNA For Zune Game Development Now In Beta

The XNA team has announced that the Community Technical Preview of XNA GSE 3.0 is now available. The big news in this is that now it is possible to develop games for the Zune. So yes, now a handheld device that will play XNA based games. Check out the official announcement here for the details on what, where, when and how. Hey, just in time for something new for after the AP CS exam. :-)

In related news, there is a demo of developing for the Zune on Channel 9 as well. Take a look here.

Edit: More Zune XNA links at http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/13/getting-started-tutorials-for-zune-game-development.aspx

Published Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:08 AM by Alfred Thompson

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