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Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:22 AM

Why Isn’t Science Class Like This?

Well there is cost for one thing. And prep time for another. Oh wait, you don’t know what I’m talking about. Let me back up. Apparently at some sort of event the NVidia people wanted to show the difference between how a CPU works and a GPU (graphic processor)
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:25 PM

Fun With Colors

I’m in the middle of a deep review of some curriculum for developing web pages. ( This curriculum was talked about in a previous post .) It’s really good stuff and I think a lot of teachers will find it valuable. During the course of this review I came
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Monday, September 08, 2008 5:39 AM

New XNA Curriculum Resources Coming Soon

I have been remiss in following news at Very Silly Games this summer. Fortunately for me Brian Scarbeau has been paying better attention. From his blog I found out that Rob Miles is about ready to release some curriculum materials for teaching programming
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Friday, August 29, 2008 9:13 AM

Friday Game News

OK it is the start of the long weekend – well once my wife gets back from school where she had just a little more to do to be ready for students on Tuesday. So it is time to think about some game news. OK so I’m thinking about more help to create games
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:25 PM

Educational Uses For Collections of Images

My wife does a middle school research project using “landmarks” as a theme. Students research places like the pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, and on and on. Obviously images are a part of this project. Students, especially today, are interested in what things
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:59 AM

Typing Tutor Online

Thanks to a post by Christopher Dawson I found this typing tutor program for younger children at the BBC web site. It looks like something students would have some fun with. Few schools seem to teach touch typing anymore. When I was a student it was mostly
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:10 AM

Tutorial: 2D Game Development in Silverlight

Now this looks interesting – a tutorial to create a game using Microsoft’s Silverlight technology . The article describes how to implement a game loop, render images and shapes, the handling of keyboard events, and how to do some simple collision detection.
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Friday, August 08, 2008 6:15 AM

Friday Misc Links – August 8 2008

Found a few good nuggets to share with people. Robots If you are in to robots or know someone who is I saw this announcement from the Microsoft Robotics team blog . The RoboChamps Amazed Challenge is over and the winners have been announced. However,
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:22 AM

Foundations Of Digital Games Conference

The Game Development in Computer Science Education conference has been renamed and this year’s event is called the Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games . This is the premier educational conference for faculty who use game
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:40 AM

Teaching About Error Messages

Here is a cartoon from Office Offline that reminds me of the sort of messages students used to write. OK maybe they were not that bad. But it was amazing the sort of things students though were acceptable messages. Messages that talked down to people,
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Monday, July 21, 2008 5:49 AM

Goof Off Monday

I have nothing serious today. I sent something to the AP CS mailing list and got back a lot of out of office messages. I'm guessing a lot of people, especially teachers, are just relaxing these days. So today, just ways to have some fun and avoid real
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Friday, July 18, 2008 11:22 AM

Popfly Lessons

There are a lot of very interesting computer science topics that typically have to wait a while before being taught. Or that people have to learn a whole lot of “plumbing” to use. Among these are things like XML, RSS, and using maps (the where things
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:32 PM

Terrarium Is Back!

If you were around in the early days of the .NET Framework you may remember a game called Terrarium. I believe that Microsoft may even have had a version running at SIGCSE one year. Bil Simser who is bringing it back fresh and updated via a CodePlex shared
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:16 PM

Interesting Links – 15 July 2008

I am struggling to catch up from my vacation. One of the trailing points in my activity is blogging – both reading and writing. I’ve got over 500 blog posts (mostly in the education category – aren’t you all on vacation?) to read. But I’ve come up with
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Friday, July 11, 2008 6:09 AM

The Four Digit Problem

So I was remembering a piece of code I had to write once. Honestly I don’t remember exactly why I had to write it. I think it may have been part of a set of patterned data for some test software though. In any case the problem was to generate a four digit
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