Bob Familiar
Bob Familiar is the Director of Academic Evangelism East Region for Microsoft. The Academic Evangelism team engages with students and faculty to help them learn about and adopt the Microsoft developer platform for use in the class room. Bob has been working in the software industry for 25 years, the past 14 with Microsoft. He holds a patent in Object Relational Design. Bob is also a composer, arranger and producer of music for film and TV. You can check out his original compositions at http://www.bobfamiliar.com.
PopFly Goes to College
Dec 16, 2007 at 5:23 PMYou are correct, C# and VB while viable, prevent the students from going beyond simple programs in the time frame of a single semester. PopFly allows them to create fairly sophisticated applications that work with data that is interesting to them AND they can share their results on line via Facebook. It's a win-win.