I had plans of finishing more Dead Island tonight before Friday (yay Skyrim)! However, the moon and Jupiter looked so lovely that I ditched gaming in favour of some amateur astrophotography. I think it was an evening well spent… 
Jupiter’s Moons and a Cloud Hiding Ours
The Moon and Jupiter
A Close-Up of the Moon
Hi Cat,
I teach at a girls boarding school in southern New Zealand and next year I will be running a full year of programming and computer science with year 13 (7th Form) girls and students from other schools via the New Zealand Virtual Learning Network. The technology curicculum down here is really cool, and they won’t just be learning programming, but all about development and planning and conceptualisation (they need to research and develop a brief, conceptualise their outcome and model it, and then plan and create it, followed by evaluation by peers and stakeholders). I subbed you on twitter because I think you do something similar when developing your games and apps, and I thought it would be good to follow any posts you have regarding development and what’s happening. I was hoping you might be able to do a short skype session or record a video or something, sometime in 2012, explaining what it is you do, the process you go through when developing a piece of software, or something like that?
Let me know
Cheers
Luke
P.S. Oh yeah, the other reason I subbed you is because I’m also using Unity 3 and Javascript (mainly Js because a lot of these students will not have programmed before and it’s a bit less strict on declarations and stuff) in the course next year. I think it’s great for education because of the immediate feedback to the learner (just hit play – no compiling process).
Hi Luke,
Of course, I’d be more than happy to help! If you’d like to chat on Skype sometime, send over your details to cat@catburton.co.uk and we can set something up. Glad to hear you’ve picked Unity for the course – it’s a great tool for games dev!
Cheers,
Cat