{"id":1907,"date":"2016-06-02T14:05:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T13:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2016-06-02T14:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T13:05:46","slug":"students-demonstrate-their-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/students-demonstrate-their-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Students demonstrate their games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcollegescotland.ac.uk\/\">West College Scotland <\/a>(Paisley campus) yesterday to observe their <em>HNC Computer Games Development<\/em> students showcase their projects to local primary children. The idea was to &#8220;test&#8221; their games on the children who then voted on their favourite game. The college Principal awarded the prizes at the end.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_133026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1908\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_133026-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"20160601_133026\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_133026-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_133026-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_133026-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_133026-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_133026.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The idea worked really well by not only giving students feedback on the software but also engaging young learners in software creation. I really enjoyed the experience and the children appeared to have a great time.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_131651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1909\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_131651-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"20160601_131651\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_131651-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_131651-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_131651-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_131651-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20160601_131651.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The college offers the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/25558.html\">HNC and HND in Computer Games Development <\/a>and the Course Leader told me that the demand for places (for next session) is the best ever, with demand out-stripping availability.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen <\/a>if you want to know more about the <em>HNC\/D Computer Games Development<\/em> or <a href=\"mailto:aneta.morrison@sqa.org.uk\">contact Aneta <\/a>about the <em>NPA Computer Games Development<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to West College Scotland (Paisley campus) yesterday to observe their HNC Computer Games Development students showcase their projects to local primary children. The idea was to &#8220;test&#8221; their games on the children who then voted on their favourite game. The college Principal awarded the prizes at the end. The idea worked really well by not only giving students feedback on the software but also engaging young learners in software creation. I really enjoyed the experience and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}