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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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Workshop Links September 17 2009

One of the things I like to demo and to have people do as sort of a “Hello World” for XNA Game Studio is create a simple Pong game. I did this demo today (well technically I will do it this afternoon) and thought I should make the materials more easily available. So I have uploaded them to Skydrive at the links below.

How To Create A Pong Game in XNA 

Includes:

  • Step by step instructions
  • Code Snippits
  • graphical content

I’d also like to link to a previous post where I listed direct links to the individual modules of the Introduction to Programming Through Game Development Using Microsoft XNA Game Studio curriculum which I talked about today. As always you can use the XNA keyword to find previous blog posts about XNA resources.

Published Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:25 AM by Alfred Thompson

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# re: Workshop Links September 17 2009 @ Saturday, October 17, 2009 12:53 PM

The guys are working on this lab in class and have already started thinking about how they can improve the game play or in one case how to take advantage of the pause feature. It's a great lab for XNA.

Bryan

# re: Workshop Links September 17 2009 @ Sunday, October 18, 2009 8:07 AM

The code could and probably should be cleaned up in a number of ways. It is not exactly the best coding practices as it was optomised for fast and easy demos with a minimum of code. Discussion about what would be better ways do do things (Hint: public variables???) might be a nice exercise as well.

Alfred Thompson

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