I don't get much traffic on these pages, but the biggest traffic source yet has been an Android tutorial for the Google Places API. More interesting than that, a slight majority of visitors come from India. Are geo-locative Android apps from India the next big thing?
Drag and drop "programming" has always been weird to me. As a teacher of programming, I feel that there's nothing quite like understanding the guts of software. I also teach game design but I focus on non-digital games.
My first attempt at adding a game layer to a class went quite well. The majority of the class reported having a positive experience and overall I thought the class was a big improvement from my previous experience teaching the class without a game layer.
I decided to try something different this past semester with a games course I teach at Hunter CUNY and Parsons. I could go on a rant about "the educational system being broken" but ultimately I think the reason I wanted to do something different was the content of the class itself.
I was working with a client on a Drupal site and he wanted a multi column list.
After being banned from the App Store, it's nice to know that Sweatshop Superstar will get to see the light of day. It will be at the Longwood Art Gallery in the Bronx until February 1st.
Once again I was reminded how important playtesting at an early stage can be. Lawrence and I are working on another mobile game (tentatively titled Greased Up) that's in a super early alpha state.
I went to New Haven this weekend to help a group of Yale graduate students create a game about dengue fever and climate change. The five of us from Parsons (Lien Tran, Ben Norskov, Mohini Dutta, Eulani Labay and myself) first met the Yale students during a playtest at the Rockefeller Foundation.
I just started learning the Android platform. I find that the best way to learn something is just diving in. It's my first time using Java as a language. It seems pretty familiar since I've done a bit of Processing and JavaScript, but throw in an SDK and it can get down right confusing.