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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:59 AM

Visual Basic .NET and C# Side By Side

Recently Clint Rutkas and I has some fun discussing which was better between C# and Visual Basic .NET. Truth be known I’m perfectly happy using C# even though my first instinct is to use VB .NET. I do believe that VB .NET is better as a first language
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Monday, September 29, 2008 11:41 AM

Using Maps From Windows Programs

One of the areas that is seeing huge growth lately is geo-coded information. Applications that take location information and other data to create useful maps is a big deal. Clint Rutkas has written a demo application and a rather complete explanation
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:25 PM

Fun With Colors

I’m in the middle of a deep review of some curriculum for developing web pages. ( This curriculum was talked about in a previous post .) It’s really good stuff and I think a lot of teachers will find it valuable. During the course of this review I came
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Friday, September 12, 2008 7:06 PM

Line Continuation and Visual Basic – More on C# vs. Visual Basic

Clint has more on our Visual Basic vs. C# discussion on his blog today . Like Clint I am completely willing to let people choice the language of choice based on personal preference. One of the really great things about the .NET platform is how easily
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments
Thursday, September 11, 2008 5:26 PM

Alfred VS Clint: C# versus VB debate

Clint Rutkas ( who is better than everyone ) Twittered his distaste for Visual Basic and preference for C# today. Now C# is a great language and I really do think that the features they borrowed from Visual Basic (properties for example) make it the best
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 7 Comments
Monday, September 08, 2008 5:39 AM

New XNA Curriculum Resources Coming Soon

I have been remiss in following news at Very Silly Games this summer. Fortunately for me Brian Scarbeau has been paying better attention. From his blog I found out that Rob Miles is about ready to release some curriculum materials for teaching programming
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:25 AM

Teaching Flowcharts – Have the Computer Draw One

Last week the Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Toy was announced and I wrote about it in my blog . Today I wanted to give people a taste of what one of the features – the Visual Programming Flow Chart - looks like. It’s really pretty simple to use.
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments
Friday, July 25, 2008 5:43 AM

Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0

The Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 was originally created by Microsoft China to help meet the curriculum needs for teaching programming in that country. According to regulations/policies of China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) almost
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 7 Comments
Monday, June 23, 2008 6:38 AM

RampUp – Learn Microsoft Technology Online

I just found out about the RampUp program. Briefly this is a program that lets people sign up for and take online training on various Microsoft developer technology such as web development and Visual Studio. There are special tracks for Java developers
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:45 AM

A Whole Pile of Programming Competition Questions

I was looking through the web site for the HP Code Wars competition the other day and came across the page where they list the questions they have used in this annual high school programming competition since 1999. (The previous years questions – including
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Monday, May 26, 2008 7:02 AM

Class Programming Project Ideas

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/26/class-programming-project-ideas.aspx'; It is often interesting what one finds by reviewing referral links (the information that shows how people get to a blog or web site). One of the sites
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:08 AM

XNA For Zune Game Development Now In Beta

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/07/xna-for-zune-game-development-now-in-beta.aspx'; 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
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Friday, April 25, 2008 4:01 PM

RoboChamps – Online, Virtual Robot Competition

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/25/robochamps-online-virtual-robot-competition.aspx'; Most robotic competitions are fairly expensive to enter. The hardware is expensive, hard to assemble and tends to break at the worst possible
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:04 PM

Bootstrapping XNA into High School Computer Science

I've been talking to a lot of schools lately that are experimenting with game development using XNA in their courses. For some of them at least some of the motivation is to attract more students into their computer science programs. Springbrook High School
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:18 AM

When Cods Collide - an XNA Game in 2D

Well I'm on the road again. Today I am flying to Miami for the Game Development in Computer Science conference . The conference takes place on a cruise ship so there is no Internet or cell phone coverage - at least not as a reasonable price. So I'm posting
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
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