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University of Florida Honors Courses — Fall 2010

By Garrison | Published: August 31, 2010
From the Uni­ver­sity of Terra Florida Uni­ver­sity of Florida Hon­ors Courses — Fall 2010 catalog. “21st Cen­tury Skills in Star­craft is an 8 week entirely online course that uses the pop­u­lar real time strat­egy (RTS) game Star­craft to teach valu­able 21st Cen­tury Skills through a hands-on approach. With soci­ety becom­ing increas­ingly technology-based and fast-paced, it [...]
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The Course of Empire

By Garrison | Published: February 1, 2010
Update (7 Feb): For a sketch of the Hait­ian infor­ma­tion infra­struc­ture, check out Michael Deibert’s post from Slate, Hait­ian Radio Returns to the Air. Orig­i­nal Post I won­der how oth­ers feel about this newly-listed MIT Media Lab course (spring 2010). On the one hand, there’s a lot here to be admired: The course is clearly the [...]
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Syllabus: Atari Hacks, Remakes, and Demakes

By Garrison | Published: January 13, 2010
Now here is a class from which we could all learn something. Atari Hacks, Remakes, and Demakes: Spe­cial Top­ics in Game Design and Analy­sis, Spring 2010. Geor­gia Insti­tute of Technology. Hacks are works pro­duced by mak­ing mod­i­fi­ca­tions to exist­ing games by dis­as­sem­bling bina­ries, ana­lyz­ing the mean­ing and pur­pose of the result­ing source code, iden­ti­fy­ing desir­able [...]
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