XNA Fun and Games in Dublin
/We were up bright and early for a "Breakfast Round Table" discussion with academics from all over Ireland about the teaching of XNA and Computer Science.
Some of the delegates had got up at scarily early hours to travel here and take part. Once I got over the disappointment that the table wasn't actually round a great discussion was had. It was interesting to hear how the computing scene in Ireland is not that different from the UK. Quite a few places are getting their students to write games as part of their teaching, others are starting game development courses. At Hull we have been doing this for a while, and so I delivered a bit of insight into how we make things work. And gave the book a good plug.
Then the student presentations started. Due to popular demand we were running two tracks and so everyone gave their sessions twice. I took some pictures of the audience looking happy at the start of my sessions (I always take the pictures at the start, in case it all goes horribly wrong).
The audience for session 1
The first session went really well with a great audience. Then I staggered out of the lecture room and into the second session.
The audience for session 2, how they appeared at the start....
However once I got the laptop working on the projector things settled down a bit and I was able to focus on the job in hand....
Another superb audience.
I had another great session with these folks, and then it was off to the airport for a flight back to Hull.
The XNA European tour goes on tomorrow to Vienna. You can find out how they are doing on Charles Cox's blog here.
