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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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I had an interesting conversation with two teachers last week. One the chair of the computer science of a large state university and the other a teacher in a career/technical high school. We were talking about how beginning programming students worked
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One of the most useful learning experiences I have had was working with editors. These talented people read my prose and make corrections, suggestions, edits, deletions and make some very helpful comments. Over time this has improved my writing quite
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Windows 7 released to the general public last week so I have to start with a couple of Windows 7 links. OK maybe I don’t *have* to but there are a couple I wanted to share. From the Teacher Tech blog there is a list of 7 things teachers will like about
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Small Basic is a great little project out of Microsoft’s DevLab that I have been following for a while. It’s a simple, little Basic language and IDE that harkens back to things like Qbasic and GBBasic and other early versions of BASIC that many of us
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Every so often a thinking question comes to mind. Once upon a time I would either spend some time thinking about these questions and perhaps write a blog to help with the thinking. These days I tend to first toss the question out on Twitter and see what
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One of the problems with knowing something about programming, computers and user interface design is that when you run into a poor design in the real world it really makes you wonder. I get this every time I use an ATM. Some of the commands require you
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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 installed some software this morning. Every indication is that it is just what I am looking for for a project I have in mind. It is touted as easy to use. There is source code available even. Supposedly there is documentation as well. But I can’t find
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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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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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