resources for educators

Visit the TouchDevelop teaching website for a comprehensive list of available resources for teachers, including our University phone loan program

classroom experience

TouchDevelop has been used in many different classroom settings, including:

• University of Newcastle, Australia during 2013
  1 semester course on Wireless Development for The Cloud: University of Newcastle students work with Microsoft
  http://www.newcastle.edu.au/course/INFT3009.html
• Drew University, Fall 2013
  First Year College Seminar (Fall 2013) by Barry Burd
• Drew University, Spring 2013
  Mobile App Development (Spring 2013) by Barry Burd
• University of Maryland, Spring 2013
  CMSC436: Programming Handheld Systems by Atif Memon, http://www.cs.umd.edu/~atif/Teaching/Spring2013b/ 
• University of Calgary, Fall 2012
  CPSC 581 Human Computer Interaction II by Saul Greenberg, http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/wiki/pmwiki.php/CPSC581/Courses 
• Graz Univ. of Technology, Austria, Fall 2012
  Mobile Computing by Wolfgang Slany
• IIIT-Delhi Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India, Fall 2012
  CSE535, Mobile Computing taught by Vinayak Naik, http://www.iiitd.edu.in/~naik/teaching/mc/#ProjectsInAppStores
• University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in Fall 2012
  ECE 190, "Introduction to Computing Systems" by Yih-Chun Hu

• University of California in Santa Cruz in April-June 2012
  10-week course (one quarter) with 20 students in Introduction to Computer Science class (1 phone per student)
  http://classes.soe.ucsc.edu/cmps010/Spring12/

• Rainier Beach High School in February-April 2012
  13-week course with 1 hour per day with 30 students (1 phone per student)

• University of California in Santa Cruz in March 2012
  2 hours with 80 students in Introduction to Computer Science class (1 phone per student)
• Mill Creek Middle School in December 2011
  2 hours with 90 students in 8th grade (1 phone per 2 students); watch video
• Interlake High School in October 2011
  90 minutes with 30 APCS students - introduction to mobile app development (1 phone per 3 students)