Yesterday I was fortunate to be involved with the UK launch of Hour of Code. With the vision of allowing every student in every school the opportunity to learn computer programming. Whilst many know that programming is a tough and challenging task to do …
Category: education
UK Hour of Code
Giving Something Back
I’ve spent this week going into both my ex secondary school and also my ex sixth form college going to talk about game development and how with Dreamspark’s help you can get games and apps onto the Windows 8 and Windows phone 8 stores …
Campus Party Europe
Now that I’ve finally caught up on my sleep I thought I’d write up my experience of Campus Party Europe at the o2 where I’ve been for the whole of last week representing Microsoft. So Campus Party is… “An annual week long, 24-hours-a-day technology …
Platform Studios Free Hotdesking
All the staff at Platform Studios are very pleased to announce that we are now offering hotdesking services in a very large spacious city centre venue, free of charge. Yes that's right. Free! We want everyone in the creative industries to be involved and …
TeenTech Humber
Today some of the platform studios guys and I helped out Simon at TeenTech Humber at the KC Stadium hosted by Maggie Philbin. The aim of TeenTech is to help the next generation understand their true potential and the real opportunities available in the …
Hull College Developer Day
Last week myself, John and Microsoft Evangelist Lee Stott held a developer day at Hull College for the BTEC Next Gen computing and HSAD (Hull School of Art and Design) web design students. The day’s purpose was to promote and teach the students how …