MVP Rob Miles has produced a programming course, for students who have no prior experience in writing games in C# and the XNA Game Studio. The course is designed to engage students with the craft of programming, by the creation of gameplay using the XNA game framework. Overview of the course "Getting Started Making Games with C# and XNA Game Studio" is a programming course for senior high school or undergraduate students with no prior programming experience. It is intended to engage

Kathleen Weaver , one of the many amazing computer science teachers in Texas these days, has been using XNA Game Studio with her students. Recently she recorded two videos that demonstrate how to deploy XNA games to other devices . Specifically this first video shows how to deploy a game from your PC to an XBOX 306 . http://kweaver.us/xboxDeploy/XboxDeploy.html This second video ( http://kweaver.us/XNA_Zune/XNA_Zune.html ) shows how to deploy an XNA game to a handheld Zune device. I give her extra

Was ist so spektakulär an einer Sinusberechnung? Es fängt damit an, dass Programmierer manchmal nachfragen, wo denn so die wichtigen Unterschiede zwischen Code für die Xbox und dem gleichwertigen Code für den PC liegen. Diese Frage ganzheitlich zu beantworten ist nicht so einfach. Man gewinnt nämlich erst nach und nach die eine oder andere Erkenntnis über kleine Unterschiede hinzu. Meistens – so auch gestern – meldet sich ein Freund der gerade an einem Xbox-Projekt arbeitet mit der Botschaft “Ich

We’ll be posting one project each month but here is the Coding4Fun booth at PDC 2009!  You can even view the Iron Bartender challenge at GeekFest as well! Overall Recap of each project Iron Bartender!

Библиотека учебных курсов пополнилась новыми курсами и книгами: Технология разработки программных систем , А.В. Гаврилов Курс дает базовые сведения по технологии разработки программных систем. Подробно рассматриваются модели и дисциплины Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF). Основной упор делается на использование полученных теоретических знаний при реализации конкретного программного проекта. На примере Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) демонстрируется использование инструментальной среды командной

Joel Ivory Johnson created a rather functional program for his Zune HD.  Joel created a bubble level based on the accelerometer in the Zune HD to get the tilt of the device.  From that data and everyone’s favorite theorem , he created a bubble level! Joel also explains the math needed for doing this such as calculating the direction and the magnitude. Vector3 accelReading = accelState.Acceleration; tiltDirection = ( float )Math.Atan2(accelReading.Y, accelReading.X); tiltMagnitude = ( float

Well, I am still working through the idea of what the best curriculum would be for a CS1 class.  Shouldn’t it be fun? University of Washington apparently has some great material around CS1 and C#.  If you are an instructor, visit the Faculty Connection to find the material on XNA Game Programming .  Thanks to Kevin Sung, this is exactly the way I would teach a CS1 class that is fun, clear and something that the students can show other what they are working on. You can download the

If you’re a listener of .NET Rocks! (“The Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers”), you may have heard Show #501 on XNA that Michael Cummings and I recorded last week. You can download the show here (59 minutes – MP3/WMA/AAC). We mentioned a lot of things on the show, so here are core resources to help you create that game you’ve always wanted to try making. So, What’s XNA? XNA is the name for resources, software, and frameworks for creating games for the PC , Zune , and Xbox 360 .  The

Ever wonder how they get the sound effects for car racing video games? A Tesla gets recorded for Microsoft games . Interesting story really. Hacking and ethics I was really hoping more people would leave comments and opinions on that post.Especially after a former student of mine left a strongly dissenting view. Is he right? What do you or your students think? I saw this first on a Tweet from @ Microsoft : “ Make learning fun: Game Design Challenge -- build mini-games on XNA Game Studio 3.1 ” Games

Prior to SP1 the Surface SDK supported only XNA Game Studio 2.0, which lacked support for Visual Studio 2008. Most people don't know it, but our the Surface SDK 1.0 SP1 release added support for XNA Game Studio 3.0 and later. And starting with version 3.0, XNA Game Studio supports Visual Studio 2008. Note: You can download the Microsoft Sruface SDK Workstation Edition from Surface.com . Just install XNA Game Studio 3.x before you install the Surface SDK. If you already have the SDK installed, install