Course Info: CS-0225
| Course | CS-0225 Women in Game Programming |
| Long Title | Women in Game Programming |
| Term | 2017F |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Adele Simmons Hall 126 on M,W from 2:30-3:50 |
| Faculty | Ira Fay |
| Capacity | 16 |
| Available | -6 |
| Waitlist | 1 |
| Distribution(s) |
Arts, Design, and Media Mind, Brain, and Information |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work |
| Additional Info | As with most things, the more time you put into this course, the more you will get out of it. You should expect to spend at least seven hours per week (on average) doing activities outside of class, primarily programming your games. |
| Description | This course was designed to give students a strong introduction to computer programming, with an emphasis on programming games. No prior programming experience was required. As the title reveals, this course particularly invited self-identified women, though all interested students were, of course, welcome! We considered (and hopefully impacted) the current gender imbalances in the professional world of game development. The course included guest interviews with notable women in game programming. By the end of the course, successful students were able to write programs of moderate difficulty and use C# and Unity to implement computer games. As a course that can provide a solid foundation for further computer science courses, this class exposed students to variables, conditionals, loops, functions, comments, and object-oriented programming concepts. |