Yet, this is a space where many have failed. Having a community to talk to, to ask questions, to get ideas, to get tried and tested material, makes a huge difference. Greenfoot is different from many other environments, teaching with it requires different projects and different ideas, and thus getting started with it, as a new teacher, is challenging. It was clear for a while that sharing of resources was a powerful thing that was urgently needed for the Greenfoot community. The Greenroom is a web site where teachers who teach with Greenfoot can share resources and have discussions. Posted in Greenfoot, Java, Teaching | Tagged Greenfoot, Kinect | 7 Replies Sharing of teaching resources – it’s about people, not about stuffĪt the beginning of April this year, we opened a new web site: the Greenroom. But beware: you might stand in the middle of your room waving your arms around for the next few days! Some people might look at you strangely, but it’s great fun. If you are interested to try it yourself - here are the detailed instructions. Neil Brown, one of our developers on the Greenfoot team, has adapted open source server software that communicates with the Kinect and designed and implemented a Greenfoot library that makes access surprisingly simple. Programming the Kinect with Greenfoot is probably the easiest way to write programs with the Kinect module. Probably the easiest way to show what I mean, is to show you what I mean. This means that you can now write simple Greenfoot games that are controlled by players body movements. The most recent addition to Greenfoot is a library that allows programmers to easily use the Microsoft Kinect module with their Greenfoot scenarios. (Those of my readers who don’t know it should have a look here.) Those of you who know Greenfoot know that one of its aims is to make programming for beginners exciting and engaging.

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