Hello all, I'm a high school computer science teacher and I'm looking for other high school teachers that might be teaching XNA to their students.

You can e-mail me at brian.scarbeau@gmail.com

Thanks.

That will be a nice addition to education ^^

Could you come teach at my school?

Please?

I would love to have that. The closses thing my school hs to programing is website stuff but its with Dreamweather I think *sob*

You were luky, of had been teached with dreamweber. When I was at highschool (preparatoria in mexico) ,two years ago, the most advanced thing that they teach us was EXEL!!! can you beleve it. and a friend that is studing for computer sience engenier the most advanced thing at their study schedule in programming is VB 6.0, again, can you beleve it.

hey Brian ... nice to see you 'round these parts.  yeah, all you teachers out there, seriously, get in contact with him ... he's a great asset to the local dev community :-)

Thanks Joel. I'll be asking for you to come speak to my class soon. I finally have my syllabus that I'll be using with my students when I start teaching C# and XNA with my students. It will be interesting to see what they can do when they finish the class.
3dbuzz.com is currently offering an online XNA course that I would strongly recommend.
Any teacher can e-mail me for the syllabus to see what I'll be doing in my class .
Brian

All my teachers don't share the same passion i have for game making. So i desided to make my own club. It starts in 2 days, i'm scared and excited.

Were starting of with 1Downloads 2Tutorials 3When its September 25th/ 07 we need to analyze Halo 3. For game reference of course.;)

i hope fellow members will help.

Since Brian posted this I have come across a good number of high school teachers who are using XNA at some level in their programming courses. I've put most of them in touch with Brian BTW because he is leading edge. I'm always looking for more though. You can email me at alfred.thompson (at) microsoft.com

Wow I wish they would have taught that stuff at my HS. AutoCAD was the only extra they really taught at the HS I went to, which was a great class considering I learned a lot of cheap tricks to make models more efficient on CPU/GPU because of how crappy the PCs were in that school. Only programming related class was at a tech center the HS was a part of and that was HTML/JavaScript but the teacher barely knew what he was doing so was more observing than learning.

Damn that would be awesome.
I can't believe we don't have this sort of education in Sweden..

You can check out my blog to see some of the games that my students created this semester.

I'll repeat the common theme around here: Why didn't they teach stuff like this at my high school?

Even though I did two senior computing subjects, and "learned" to use everything from Frontpage to Pro-desktop to Access, I consider myself entirely self-taught. The programs I consider truly worthwhile (Flash, 3DS Max, Visual Studio, etc.) were barely touched upon.

I only found XNA recently by sheer blind stumbling-around-running-into-walls luck, but I'm not going to waste the opportunity.

BLACKTUNDRA00:

You can check out my blog to see some of the games that my students created this semester.

I saw the videos on your blog, from my view "L.T.'s 1945 game" is using more skills. i mention that the shooter can rotate and  it has a health indicator. may L.T. can relate the health condition with colors. just when the health is full using a green or blue text and as it decreases fade to yellow and red.

I'm unable to express my feeling about how exciting and beneficial is this to teach xna to hs students.  although we couldn't learn xna at high school simply because there was no such a thing like xna but it's a shame that the most advanced topic we learned was for loop in q-basic.
i remember i got 99 in computer because there was a question asking how to shut down windows,  and i wrote press Alt+F4; instead of start>shutdown.
if i could choose my secondary studies again i would not choose math and physics. i would choose computer in a technical high school which also includes math and physics (but less advanced and not all university level math)

I teach at a Career and Technical School in Pennylvania.  I will be teaching games programming next year and using the XNA.  I emailed you my contact information.  I already teach java,sql, web design and am using the xna to help get students interested in programming and computer science.

Quasar:

Why didn't they teach stuff like this at my high school?

I know exactly why, at least for my school. Because the computer Science AP test wasn't in C#. It's exactly the reason why my high school CS classes were in Java, and exactly the reason why the CS courses at that school a few years before me were in C++. My school may have been quirky (most schools have entrance requirements for AP classes, and force the students to pay the $80/test if they choose to take it; my school had no entrance requirements and paid for the students to take the tests. Of course, since the school was paying, you were forced to take the test, and you were charged $20 if you didn't take it), and some may argue the merits of teaching to a test, but it is reasonable.

Then again, the two game programming courses I took this past year at my university had a high school senior enrolled.

i have a XNa Teacher But are you willing to teach over the internet

I'm starting up a new course at our Career and Technology center as well.  We will be teaching XNA and C#.  I'm really looking forward to it because they have given me free reign on what to do. 

I can be reached at Digs.Development@live.com  if anyone wants

I'm a longtime C# programmer who will be teaching programming and XNA to middle-school students this summer.
I may be in over my head.  I'm putting the curriculum together myself as I haven't found any other resources for kids this young.

If anyone has a curriculum map or lessons for this kind of course, I'd love to see what you have. Otherwise I could share some of what I've done when it's more put together.  It's a quick course - 1 week summer camp.  We'll only be scratching the surface of some computer science topics.

dawn underscore dupriest at hotmail dot com