Check this out.. my programming students were on a local news TV channel today for a game that celebrates a school rivalry. What was cool as a high school project was that they were forced out of necessity to create a networked version of the game that syncs game state back and forth between clients over a LAN. The whole thing was our attempt to promote computer science as a subject at the high school and it seems to have attracted some local media attention (3 newspapers and a local TV station) For me, I'm just trying to get more kids to sign up for programming classes.
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