Category: Computer Science
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Thomas Suarez – iPhone Application Developer… and 6th Grader
Thomas Suarez is a 6th grade student at a middle school in the South Bay of Los Angeles. When Apple released the Software Development Kit (SDK), he began to create and sell his own applications. “My parents, my friends and even the people at the Apple store all supported me,” he says, “and Steve Jobs…
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Modern Warfare 3 Passes $1 Billion in Sales in 16 Days
By NICK BILTON, NYTimes screenshot via Activision Modern Warfare 3, the first-person shooter video game, passed $1 billion in sales in just 16 days, according to Activision Blizzard, the game’s distributor. Modern Warfare 2, an earlier installment of the game, took 60 days to reach the same milestone. The sales did not just shatter previous…
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Are you Addicted to Angry Birds?
The Widespread Popularity of Angry Birds Angry Birds debuted in 2009 and has been downloaded over 300 million times. It’s on track to reach 1 billion downloads in the not too distant future. And here’s where it gets shocking ̶̶ people play Angry Birds 200 million minutes per day! That’s equal to 16 years of…
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Game On 2.0
For those of you enrolling in Introduction to Game Programming this year stop playing Dwarf Fortress, and who isn’t, and get down to OMSI and see Game On 2.0! Tell your parents it is educational, info from OMSI below: Play your way through the past, present, and future of global gaming. From Pong to Gran Turismo,…
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