Category: Computer Science
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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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Summertime and Escape the Room Games
It is summer and while I didn’t get my level II programming class approved this year again, I am still fascinated with the idea of having students create Escape the Room Games on phones. IF someone wished to look around this summer I hope they look at a few of them. One great place to…
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A trivia game where using Google is allowed
Traditional trivia games have a rule that you can’t cheat—you can’t look things up in books, you can’t ask your friends and you certainly can’t ask Google. But what if there were a trivia game where you could not only ask Google, but were encouraged to do so? Imagine how difficult the questions would need…