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New High School Computer Science Course Creating Games with XNA ® Game Studio and C# Fall 2009 Recruit students to your schools’ computer science classes by adding a new game development course! Students will develop computer science knowledge and skills
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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
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One of the things I hear a lot is that teaching game programming is just i gimmick – something to get kids interested but not a serious course leading to serious things. It occurred to me the other day that people don’t have the same reaction to video
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This year the US Imagine Cup Game Design Competition is wide open for participation by high school students over the age of 16. Yes this is primarily a college/university level competition but I’ve seen high school students compete at high levels in the
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The idea of games that use accelerometers strikes me as particularly interesting an several levels. The most obvious is for creating games of course. But looking deeper I like the idea that one could teach things with the right software. Things around
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I’m not really working today. Well just this post really. For the most part I have been largely offline for Labor Day weekend. Enjoying family, sun, books, and relaxing. My wife and son start school with their students tomorrow. They’ve been doing the
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August was something else for me. I had some travel. I had a lot of work. And I did some things around the house. That’s what August is for right? You may or may not have noticed but blogging was a little lighter than usual for me in August. Only the
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Updated with additional links on September 3rd 2009. Introduction to Programming Through Game Development Using Microsoft XNA Game Studio Introduction to Programming Through Game Development Using Microsoft XNA Game Studio - Chapter 1: Computers, C#,
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Filed under: Robotics, Computer Science Education, CSTA, Careers, Game Programming, education, fun, Conferences, Education Technology, Popfly, Ethics, blogs, Windows7
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Last week was NECC and boy was I ever busy. On the other hand the places on the Internet were slow in some ways and busy in others. The education Twitter space was all NECC all the time. Many education bloggers were not blogging because they were just
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