Java interview Questionshe first stop on the road to becoming a computer programmer was the local arcade. In the 1980s, as now, video games were a booming business. As a preteen enthralled by these glowing, interactive marvels, to be told that I could actually learn how to make video games was like being handed a scholarship to Hogwarts. The arrival of the home computer made it possible. Today, video arcades have more or less vanished from the American landscape, but kids' interest in video games is stronger than ever.
Game consoles and PCs have become staples of family life. But this new generation of gaming platforms doesn't seem to be encouraging kids to take up computer programming. [ Get software development news and insights from InfoWorld's Developer World newsletter. ] "There are more and more [computer science] jobs," says Alexander Repenning, a computer science professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, "but the interest is actually going down, and the interest of women in these kinds of jobs is going down even faster." Although video games have changed a lot since the 1980s, Repenning and other instructors at Colorado are betting that what worked to inspire kids then can work now. Currently in its third year, the university's Scalable Game Design curriculum aims to reinvent computer science education beginning at the middle school level, using games as the spark to ignite students' interest in computing.
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