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I might have found a way to gear my career to playing video games!
shateredsoul:
I recently made connections with people who can help me with my research interest, "how kids learn to program from playing video games".
One person worked with Microsoft helping develop AI for Kodu (you can download it for free and on xbox 360 for $5), and the other person is working off an NSF grant to get more girls into programming careers. One of the guys invited me to global game jam.. I can't program, but he said you can use anything (including rpg maker, game maker, hell you can even make a board game).
I'm really excited. I'm also taking a java intro class, figure if I'm going to study this I better know it.
Now i'm just worried about whether i'm overloading my self, Graduate Student Research position (20 hrs a week), qualifying exam, working on 3 publications, mentoring 6 udergrads, working on coding kids interactions while playing a video game, planning wedding, working out 4 times a week (doctors orders), qualifying exams.
Now that I list it out, doesn't seem like too much, plus might as well work ---my bottom--- off now that I can cuz I won't have time when we have kids.
drventure:
Great stuff. Anything to get more kids into tech.
My daughter had show and tell in kindergarten.
So I set her up with
1) A resistor ("it's like riding your bike through a sandpit for electricity")
2) A Capacitor ("it's like a battery that looses it's charge really fast")
3) a 386 CPU ("it's the brain of a computer")
4) an LED with a button battery ("it makes an electrical circuit")
The classes loved it, and her teachers kept commenting on how technical she was<g>
Gotta balance that with princesses and unicorns though!
Thenasty:
what......................no time for MAME ? :angry:
shateredsoul:
--- Quote from: Thenasty on December 15, 2010, 10:38:32 pm ---what......................no time for MAME ? :angry:
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yeah maybe not, at least not until I knock off a few things of that list.
Turns out the guy I met, Teale Fristoe, made this game. It's called, As I Lay Dying, it's a pixel art game. It addresses pretty interesting and dark, but real issues. A fun platformer.
http://www.digyourowngrave.com/as-i-lay-dying/
*edit* just had a thought, I could turn coding for mame into a learning opportunity, have the kids fill in the empty spots on the mame team, they learn how to code, we get updates to mame. win win. :laugh:
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: shateredsoul on December 15, 2010, 10:30:26 pm ---I'm really excited. I'm also taking a java intro class, figure if I'm going to study this I better know it.
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Take it from someone who made the grave mistake of studying a "satellite" language first.
Skip the Java and go straight to a language like C. Once you learn C, you'll get a working knowledge of languages like C++, C# (to some degree) and naturally, Java. Once you get the syntax, all you need to learn is the dialect.
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