DigiGirlz 2013 (DigiCars)

DigiGirlz 2013, Lehi UT

One reason I enjoy Microsoft is their encouragement for young people to take an interest in technology. Digigirlz is one of these events that encourages young women to get involved with technology.

I was asked to present an introduction to programming session in Lehi Utah. As part of the hands-on activity, I created a small progam called DigiCars. This allowed the girls to have their first experience with programming in a fun game-like environment. Inspired from the old-logo type of programming I did as a kid -- the girls issued c# commands to control a little red converable around the screen. The goal was to squash (run-over) all 12 of the frogs leaving the last frog as her prince. To make the experience a little more personal each frog was a friend from their facebook profile.

I am writing this blog post as an easy way for the girls to download the session files from home.

Student Download

Everything needed to get started with this can be found here at the end of this post.

 

Disclaimer

Although DigiGirlz is a Microsoft event, all source code, presentation material, and binaries are of my own creation for demonstration purposes. They are neither endorsed by Microsoft, nor distributed by Microsoft.