Microsoft is Jump Starting the student developer with an offering of FREE developer tools. Just for being a student, you get professional-level developer and design tools as a download, at no-charge and with no strings attached. The DreamSpark offering of software compliments MSDNAA program and MSDN AA program continues in its current form. There has been a significant drop in Computer Science and engineering student enrollments in the US universities. A big part of this drop is the perception that

Last Saturday, Carleton University hosted a Game Camp for students and faculty. The theme of the Game Camp was XNA and Game Studio Express. Christian Beauclair gave an in-depth presentation on how to create a pong game from scratch. We also took a look at the Creator's Club, games being developed by the community and Torque X. During the event, I got the opportunity to chat with Daniel Deschamps. He is a bright CS student who has developed a game of Asteroids in C++ which works on multiple platform