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Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson

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. If you are a Twitter user you can follow Alfred at @AlfredTwo<\a>

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New XNA Curriculum Resources

Updated with additional links on September 3rd 2009.

Here is a quick overview of the first item in the list.

Learn the underlying skills and principles of software development--as you design and build your first games for Xbox 360, Windows, and Zune.

Designed specifically for students with no computer science background, this curriculum teaches the fundamentals of C# programming and the XNA Game Studio framework--for skills you can apply to game programming and beyond.

· Write code to create and control game behavior

· Build the game display--color, graphics, text

· Create multiplayer features

· Capture and cue sounds

· Process input from gamepads and keyboards

Published Saturday, August 29, 2009 6:07 AM by Alfred Thompson

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