{"id":627,"date":"2010-06-20T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T12:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/xna-programming-2\/"},"modified":"2010-06-20T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T12:32:34","slug":"xna-programming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/xna-programming-2\/","title":{"rendered":"XNA Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is the &#8220;handout&#8221; I created for the short presentation I did at the AP workshop I attended.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>XNA Programming<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>XNA is a development tool kit that allows people to develop for the Windows PC, Zune, and Xbox.  It is free.  We researched in class, WII or PS2 programming is MUCH more expensive.\n<\/p>\n<p>C# is a programming language by Microsoft that is a free download.  That is the IDE and language needed to work with XNA.  Download C# first \u2013 it looks just like Java.\n<\/p>\n<p>Download C# and XNA Game Studio 3.1\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creators.xna.com\/en-US\/downloads\">http:\/\/creators.xna.com\/en-US\/downloads<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>XNA gives you everything you need:\n<\/p>\n<p>Which the listserv, twitter, and etc. and Microsoft has been developing XNA curriculum for high school students.   My twitter id is<strong> kathweaver &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kathweaver\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kathweaver<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Programming for the Xbox is somewhat expensive:  Xbox, Creator&#8217;s Club and Xbox Gold membership needed for full development.\n<\/p>\n<p>Programming for Zune is cheaper \u2013 can get small old style Zune for &lt; $100.\n<\/p>\n<p>Programming for Windows PC is absolutely free.\n<\/p>\n<p>Demonstration of XNA curriculum I did for kids at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screencast.com\/t\/NGI3ZDBhN\">http:\/\/www.screencast.com\/t\/NGI3ZDBhN<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36pt\">FYI: Movies made using Camtasia at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\">http:\/\/www.techsmith.com<\/a> and free storage at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screencast.com\">http:\/\/www.screencast.com<\/a> which is rarely blocked by school districts.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36pt\">My CS blog is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kweaver.org\/cs\">http:\/\/www.kweaver.org\/cs<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Free moodle:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keytoschool.com\/\">http:\/\/www.keytoschool.com\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the &#8220;handout&#8221; I created for the short presentation I did at the AP workshop I attended. XNA Programming XNA is a development tool kit that allows people to develop for the Windows PC, Zune, and Xbox. It is free. We researched in class, WII or PS2 programming is MUCH more expensive. C# is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}