Game programming concepts can be taught at CP-CCSC schools: panel discussion

Computer and Video gaming have made a significant impact upon our current generation of college students, in particular computing students. We can tap into that interest within our departments in several different ways: We can offer a beginning game programming class with the resources we already have; or we can incorporate the concepts in a section of a CSO Alice based class; or have a portion of a computational intelligence class address the topic from a game programming standpoint. We will discuss these different approaches, the successes and failures. We will also talk about what we propose at our schools in the future.