Monday, February 23, 2009

Week 4 - Sign up and get started

Introduction

Welcome to the "Intermediate Programming Language" course. We will be learning concepts in C# and applying them to an Xbox / PC XNA framework which could be uploaded and reviewed by the world - possibly published by Microsoft.

Getting Started

1. First of all create an XNA account (not required)
http://creators.xna.com/en-US

2. Next download Visual Studio C# Express 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/

3. Finally download Game Studio 3.0
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7D70D6ED-1EDD-4852-9883-9A33C0AD8FEE&displaylang=en

Cool Links

Class contents

1. Code using user-defined data structures: A user-defined data type, such as a class or interface.

Demonstrate writing a class. (download source code)

Class example (http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorials/Lesson07.aspx)