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International Case Blasts
Perspectives on teaching games-related subjects presented in handy bite-sized chunks
Speakers have 5 minutes to introduce themselves and present their cases
Q&A for the speakers at the end (IF we have time left)
Take-Away: an overview of different approaches to games education
Your Moderator:
Dan Hodgson Northumbria University in Newcastle,
UK BSc Computer Games Software
Engineering (www.gamesdegree.com) Head of “Student Outreach” for IGDA
ED SIG
Case 1: Rob Miles
Lecturer in Computer Science – University of Hull
www.robmiles.com
Module manager for First Year C# programming course at Hull
Teaching Programming
Learning to program is hard
Teaching programming is hard
Need to motivate and enthuse
Teaching with Games
Games are great for teaching
Students are strongly motivated to write them
They also provide a good context for programming examples
What we are doing at Hull
Make a text based game in semester 1 Simple snake game
Move that onto a console in semester 2 2D "Snake on a Plane"
Start a games programming club for advanced students
How it works
The C# model for XNA is very easy to use
Students are encouraged to factor their text apps to make it easy to map onto the XNA framework
Results so far
Students like it Even the ones not on the Games
Programming Courses We can teach some nice theory
From algorithms to events to OO design Marking assignments is much more fun!
Get the student to let us play their game....
Find Out More
Presentations and sample code (and dodgy blog)
www.robmiles.com/xna