Pat Yongpradit, a talented young HS CS teacher I have written
about before, has created a 5 week mini-course on game
programming with XNA Game Studio. This course is particularly
useful for educators who want to offer game programming to their
students as an enrichment unit, as part of a summer school or
after school program or other places in their curriculum. It is
especially useful for educators who don’t already have the game
development knowledge and who don’t have a lot of free time to
learn it on their own. This curriculum gives you access to a
free textbook (in PDF format) as well as video tutorials that
lead students through the lessons. It is explicitly designed for
students who already know how to program, the difference here is
that this curriculum teaches them how program in a game context.
Here are some other reasons I think this is such a good course:
Where do you get all of this? And don’t forget to sign you high
school up for DreamSpark to get students even more free
development software!