Microsoft Developer Tools NOW for Kids and Adults

MICROSOFT DEVELOPER TOOLSFOR KIDS TO ADULTS

Lynn Langit – Developer Evangelist – Microsoft http://blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal

KODU

VISUAL W

ORLD P

ROGRAMMING

PLAYING A GAME, OR BUILDING A WORLD, OR BOTH?

BUILD A WORLD ON YOUR PC, USING AN XBOX CONTROLLER

VISUAL OBJECTS AND PROPERTIES

WHEN / DO PROGRAMMING

WORLD PROPERTIES

SMALL BASICRECIPES ARE LESSONS

COURSEWARE – INTENTIONAL CODING, RECIPES

EDITOR AND CODE

EditorEditor Instant Help

Instant Help

Intellisense

Intellisense

RibbonRibbon

WHAT SHAPE WILL THIS CODE DRAW?

HOW ABOUT A QUIZ?

Code is Joy!

ONE WORLDSmallBasic Everywhere Localized into many

languages

Recipe Translation BING Twitter Live (at events) Use Rondoris

T-SQL QUERIESFINDING THE HOTTEST BOYS

QUERYING FOR HOTNESS

T-SQL COURSEWARE – FLEXIBILITY IN THE CLOUD

SQL Azure hosted DB

Web-based query front-end

Zero install

Massively scalable

DB Framework Joke Database TV Show Database Car Database

OLDER K

IDS C

ODING

ROBOTS A

ND GAMES

LEGO MINDSTORMSUNITE PHYSICAL

AND LOGICAL

GAMES AND NUIS

• PEX

• Coding4Fun Imagine Cup

• XNA

• XBOX 360 / Kinect

• Touch / Voice

ADULT P

ROGRAMMERS

CODE LESS, P

RODUCE MORE

NEW HARDWARE & DEVICES

• Sensors• Light• Location• Accelerometer

• Voice input• Gesture input

• Multi touch• Controller-less

• Parallelism• Windows Phone 7

“NO-(OR LITTLE)-CODE” CODING

• Templates / Repositories (CodePlex)

• Mash up Generators

• Dot Net Nuke

• SharePoint

DATA VISUALIZERS

• XML

• Geometric Data types

• Large Data Sets (graphs)

• Debuggers Intellitrace Deadlocks

• Parallelism Tasks Threads

SEMANTIC LAYERS

• LINQ & PLINQ

• Entity Framework

• DSL writers

LANGUAGE INDEPENDENCE

• C#

• VB.Net

• F#

• C++

• More

• Use ILDASM to view IL

VISUAL STUDIO – SOME FREE VERSIONS

• Express

• Windows Phone 7

• Light Switch

VISUAL STUDIO – ONE STOP SHOP

Full Versions Templates Wizards Extensions

Free versions integrate into full version

Phone Cloud SQL BI

VISUAL STUDIO EXTENSIONS

EXPRESSION BLEND

Designers•Visual Design

Developers•Code in a Design Environment

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MORE INFO

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• Blog – blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal

• Kids – www.TeachingKidsProgramming.org