Is XNA Game Studio too much for High School students? Not if they are motivated! Case in point is a project by Amir Shah, a 16 year old junior at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring Maryland, who is working on Pong for the Zune. ( http://amir.shah.org/index.php/archives/165
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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
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I talk to technology students in Universities across the Midwest and am often asked: What kinds of technology jobs will be available in the future? What skills should I learn in college to prepare for the jobs? With the growth of disruptive technologies
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15 papers were selected from 60 submissions for presentation at the 3rd Annual Microsoft Academic Days Conference on Game Development (February 28-March 3, 2008) : Title: Game2Learn: Improving the motivation of CS1 students Authors Tiffany Barnes, Heather
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The 3rd Annual Microsoft Academic Days Conference on Game Development (GDCSE'08) - February 28-March 3, 2008 aboard the Celebrity Century Cruise Ship is expected to attract ~400 of the top research and teaching faculty in Computer Science, with an interest
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