Video game designer education – it’s in electives

In an increasingly saturated video game programming market, how does a developer distinguish himself enough to stand out of the crowd? The Game Career Guide has recently published Michael McCoy’s feature on Academics for Game Designers, reflecting on 12 years in the computer industry as a game designer, and suggesting academic pursuits for a career [...]

Get a free computer science education online

The Creative Commons movement encourages freedom of information, so a number of colleges and universities are starting to publish free online courses, under similar licenses. Organized as an Open Courseware Consortium, universities are working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through digital publication of high quality study materials for free online education.

MIT is [...]

Programming your way out of too much homework

A seemingly common high school math homework practice is to assign crunch assignments. Pages and pages of repetitive homework questions, essentially asking the same thing, but with different numbers. Arguably designed to reinforce a concept via a lot of repetitive practice (even though studies suggest that too much homework is counterproductive and lowers test scores). [...]