Today I had the pleasure of attending a presentation that made me proud to become a Microsoft worker. For your past few months, three men from Windows CE - Phil Leslie, Louis Clausen, and Evan Goldring (indeed, that would be Mr. Zoë – worked with a group of “accelerated” AP Computer Science students at Newport High School in nearby Bellevue. With Phil, Louis,
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Office Pro 2010 Key, the students developed a game called “Hunt the Wumpus!” I understand “Hunt the Wumpus!” is a text based game from the 70s that has now grow to be a relatively popular assignment for CS students to design and code. Zoë has asked Phil Leslie to tell you more about this project in his own guest post so I won;t get into details tonight – but I just wanted to briefly mention how impressed I was today. Not only did these students develop the game, but they presented their work to a group of fellow students, parents, and Microsoft employees. Running a PowerPoint presentation from the podium, each student spoke about his individual responsibilities and component for that game. They also talked about their successes and challenges … and braved Q&A from the audience. Most even mentioned that a favorite aspect of the project was working with Microsoft folks … Yeah,
Windows 7 64 Bit, try working with us everyday and see how you like it. ;-) Afterwards, Phil, Louis, and Evan presented each student with his own Microsoft Ship-It Award (something Zoë and I have already mentioned we would covet … if we had one.) I was so proud of everyone involved,
Windows 7! So a big congratulations to the talented students and a big thanks to Phil, Louis, and Evan for sharing just a little of their time, effort,
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