[NBLUG/talk] Game development course

[Omar Eljumaily]

I'm teaching a javascript game programming course once a week for the 
next few months at my son's middle school in Santa Rosa.  I want to 
develop a class team project.  I was wondering if anybody had any 
suggestions about how to organize it, considering the subject matter at 
the recent meeting.

I'm thinking maybe "pair programming" for doing the actual work. There 
are about 12 students, so maybe 6 pairs.  Game development is more than 
programming, though.  A lot of it will be computer graphics, which can 
also be done in pairs.

I'll have to chop the actual coding up into different modules, I guess.  
It's something that I'll probably have to write myself before I have 
them rewrite it.  I guess that will work well under any system, a 
project that's finished before you start it, but something that 
hopefully could be a good learning experience.

Any other suggestions?  Mob programming?  Scrum?

Thanks,

Omar