Tutorial on: Developing Applications for the XBOX 360 Console

CCSC-NW 2007 Conference
Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
Oct 13, 2007

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1. Introduction: slides on background and overview for this tutorial.
    
2. Installation guide: download/installation/setup for the IDE, API, and potential hardware (game pad controller).
    
3. Simple Example: instruction and source code project for a bare bone XNA project.
    
4. XnaAssignmentBase Library: simple library (with documentation and tutorial) supporting 2D interactive graphics application development on the XBOX 360 console. This library is especially designed to support faculty with no graphics and/or games background to experiment with games/graphics based assignments.
   • Here is the keyboard-to-gamepad mapping defined by the XnaAssignmentBaser library.
   • Here is the source code to the XnaAssignmentBase library. Warning: this source code is work in progress, we apologize for the general lack of comments and/or structure. We expect/hope, in general, people will use the library, rather than work on the library.


5. Examples of working with the XnaAssignmentBase library: a collection of examples, including step-by-step guides, on how to implement various functionality with the XnaAssignmentBase library.
    
6. Sample Assignments: Sample assignment modules based on the XnaAssignmentBase library. These  assignments are designed for typical CS1/2 courses. Each module includes materials for both the faculty (summary of pre-requisite and learning outcomes, sample pre/post tests, a sample grading rubric, sample solutions, and an implementation tutorial) and students (assignment description, and a skeleton starter project).
    
7. References:
   • This work is based on the "XNA Based Games-Themed Programming Assignments for CS1/2" project.
   • If you are interested in learning more about user interactive and graphics programming, here is a site with lots of tutorials in combinations of C++/MFC/OGL, C++/MFC/D3D, C#/WinForm, Java.