XNA CS1/2 Assignments: Game-Themed Introductory Programming

	XNA CS1/2 Assignments: Game-Themed Introductory Programming
Computing and Software Systems UW Bothell

Project Goals:

Design/Develop XNA Game-themed programming Assignment (XGA) modules for CS1/CS2 courses targeted specifically for adoption by faculty member with no background in games and graphics.

High level overview of this project:
Current Results: XNA Game-theme Assignments (XGA) modules
- Implementation is based on the Microsoft XNA framework (in C#) .
- The modules are self-contained so faculty members currently teaching CS1/2 courses can selectively pick and choose from the game-themed assignments, and combine them with their own non-games assignments.
- The modules are programming experience neutral where instead of developing games from scratch, students work with given skeleton game-like applications to fill-in relevant core programming concepts.
- Implementation tutorials are available for interested faculty members to learn how to develop their own XGAs.
Faculty can incorporate these modules with a minimum of effort, a minimum knowledge on computer gaming, and a minimum investment in computer-gaming specific curricula.

Please refer to: XGA Latest Release for the details of Release 1.1 of the XGA modules.

This work is supported in part by a grant from Microsoft Research under the Computer Gaming Curriculum in Computer Science RFP, Award Number 15871 and 16531.

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