Category Archives: Windows

C# Crash Course

By Shahed C on November 6, 2014
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I put together a C# Crash Course for college students in the DC Metro area, to get a jump start on the popular language.

 

Next Steps:

Learning C# for Unity Game Development? Try the following:

Enjoy! 🙂

 

Mobile Apps and the Cloud

By Shahed C on October 14, 2014
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I presented “Mobile Apps and the Cloud” at the University of Maryland at College Park on Tue Oct 14, 2014. The students at this event were all interns at Excella Consulting’s XC (Extension Center) on campus.

Here is the presentation tutorial, followed by photos from the event.

 

Photo Gallery of students enjoying my Kinect “Speech Bubbles” app, and showing off their prizes:

Universal Apps at NoVA Code Camp 2014

By Shahed C on October 11, 2014
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Recently, I presented Universal Apps at Nova Code Camp on Sat Oct 11, 2014. 

Northern Virginia Code Camp 2014

 Presentation Material

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Kinect v2 Speech Bubbles Enhanced

By Shahed C on September 29, 2014
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During Summer 2014, I had the chance to work on a Kinect v2 “Speech Bubbles” app, built upon a sample project from Kinect MVP Tom Kerkhove. In the initial version, I added a speech bubble gets displayed above a person’s head when the person walks into view.

initial-version

However, this created a problem for multiple people. It was displaying the same text for every person who walked into view, up to 6 people. So, I decided to update the program to display a new random message every time a new person is detected.

I quickly discovered that this created yet another problem: all the displayed messages would get updated for everyone, even when only 1 new person entered the frame. Finally, I added an array of displayed messages (one for each detected body), so that everyone gets their own randomized text.

Now, it was ready to test in the wild… so I used it at HackUMBC, a hackathon event at the University of Maryland Baltimore College.

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MSDN Channel 9 Video Promoting MVA Construct 2 Video Tutorial

By Shahed C on September 20, 2014
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Interested in developing games with Construct 2?

Check out a promo video of my colleague James Quick and I on MSDN’s Channel 9 (with DevRadio host Jerry Nixon,  to promote our upcoming video tutorial on Microsoft Virtual Academy.

Free Registration

To register for the course, simply go to Microsoft Virtual Academy at:

Details:

  • Date/Time: September 25, 2014 9:00am–1:00pm PDT
  • What: Jump Start training with live Q&A
  • Cost: Free
  • Audience: Hobbyists or professionals, of any skill level, interested in learning to build 2D games.
  • Prerequisites: No experience in game development or computer science is required.