This is the new Where Would You Think design for the T shirt that we will be giving out in our first Open Day next week. If you are coming to Hull make sure you get one.
If you are wondering about the significance of the design on the front of the shirts, you can find out more here.
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Andy Sithers from Microsoft came to see us today. We all went for a meal in Staff House, had a quick meeting with the Imagine Cup teams to discuss their entries (looking good people) and then he gave a presentation as part of the Inspiration Tour. Great fun.
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Earlier this week a bunch of our students went off on a road trip to visit some game companies, including Black Rock and CodeMasters.
These are students on our game development courses, and it will be interesting for them because they will be meeting up with ex-Hull students who now work in the game development business.
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Yes. these guys are programmers. How did you guess?
Into the fray
Peter Robinson uses a laser to lay down the law
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Rob Miles has been recording XNA screencasts for the last six months or so for Thirteen1 magazine. The aim is to give you a gentle introduction to programming, using XNA games as the basis of the teaching.
If you want to view the screencasts, and download the practical sessions that go with them, you can find them on his VerySillyGames site:
]]>In the meantime, if you want to take part in the competition, do your bit for charity and cost Microsoft some money (and who doesn’t) you can still sign up for the other competitions at the UK Imagine Cup web site. Microsoft have pledged a pound to charity for everyone who gets involved.
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If you go to the North America TechEd 2009 site you are presently faced with the deeply scary picture above. Students at Hull wil be very familiar with one of the people in the montage.....
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We have a few "Bashes" each year. This is the poster for the Christmas one. We had pizza, pop, sweeties, Lego Rock Band, Buzz Quiz, Band Hero and Wii stuff.
..and a wordsearch...
..with quality prizes....
…some very intensive Team Fortress 2 sessions...
.. and the band played on...
You can find more pictures (and some of the same ones) on Rob's blog.
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The bi-weekly Wednesday afternoon “sports” sessions are now going very well. Hull ComSoc seems to be on to a winner (even when the server starts to wobble right in the middle of a game – cue laptops and nervousness…..)
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On the left….
..in the middle..
…and on the right
If you want to find the links to the presentation and the sample code, you can find them on Rob's blog post for the day.
You can find Robs "Yellow Book" on C#, and his "Orange Book" on Java to C# at www.csharpcourse.com
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