For over a year now, I've been busy learning XNA and then try to put together some curriculum for my Honors Programming II class to use.
3dbuzz has an excellent online class and. I would highly recommend their training.
I am using
moodle class management system with my students and it is a very convenient way of organizing a course.
I'll be doing weekly blogs on the progress of the course . I am hoping more high school teachers would teach XNA to their students and we all can share games together.
My students don't know C# so I'll be using some
free curriculum that
Digipen and Microsoft created. I'll be using some online tutorials that MVP
Bill Reiss put together. I have
several links here that I'll use as well.
I wanted my students to have a textbook and the only XNA book that was available at the time of putting this course together was
Professional XNA Game Programming: For Xbox 360 and Windowsby Benjamin Nitschke. I previously blogged about this book. There are some chapters that I'll never cover with my students because of the difficulty level and that I'm only trying to do 2d game programming with my class.
Stay tune for future blogs about this adventure. Class starts next week!!