teaching

Which languages should be teached in schools?

Hi everyone, One of my old teacher recently contacted me because he wants to revamp that school software development program. He told me that he thought of C# and Java as programming languages, and ASP.net and PHP for web technologies. Since there are many employers out here, i'm asking: In 2011+, which technologies will you want your ro...

Is there a good alternative to flash for teaching game development to beginners?

I have been asked to research teaching a module in game development to beginners (no programming skills) of the age group 18-30, at a secondary school level. The course will run for roughly 8-10 months and each student would probably get 3 hours of teaching time per week. My initial thoughts were to propose using Flash, since the stude...