Not quite sure how this appeared in Delaware Online, but here’s the link to the Perspective article by Bill Gates:
U.S. needs talent to be competitive
His strategy is in two parts:
First, we must demand strong schools so that young Americans enter Read More...
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on Sun, Mar 4 2007
Filed under: Society, Phrogram, computer science, Education
Here’s a link to the PDF version of the presentation I gave Saturday at the Microsoft Academic Days on Game Development for Computer Science Education conference:
Game Programming for Introductory Computer Science
If Microsoft makes the video available Read More...
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on Tue, Feb 27 2007
Filed under: Game Programming, Phrogram, Kid's Programming Language, computer science, Serious Games, educational software
OK, eBook - we’re in a digital media world now. Formatted to the screen - landscape - so it’s easy to read and use. Here’s the link to it at Addison Wesley’s site. It came out great - the professional designers and editors at AWL Read More...
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on Tue, Feb 20 2007
Filed under: Game Programming, Phrogram, Kid's Programming Language, computer science, User Created
Steve Jobs releases the iPhone at MacWorld. Apple’s stock reaches an all-time high. The iPhone runs full-blown OSX, and sports a patented new multi-touch interface. Apple Computer is literally no longer Apple Computer because it’s not just Read More...
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on Thu, Jan 11 2007
Filed under: Video Games, Game Programming, Phrogram, User Created, XNA, Zune, iPhone
In the Top Stories list on xbox.com is a video from Monday night’s XNA open house, a celebration about Monday’s XNA release. Here’s a direct link to the video, which includes a bunch of our own demo programs, and our 15-second explanation Read More...
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on Wed, Dec 13 2006
Filed under: Game Programming, Phrogram, User Created, XNA, xbox 360