When I visited Rio this February, I managed to run two .NET Gadgeteer workshops.
The first one was at the Superior School of Design @ Rio de Janeiro State University, and counted with almost 30 participants.
ESDI Workshop
Prototype built by some participants in the workshop
The second workshop was aimed at first year Computer Science and Engineering students and took place at the Informatics Department @ Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.
Participants building a digital camera with .NET Gadgeteer
The experience of running these workshops was great and I hope to be able to do it again in the future. I would like to thank all participants, everyone that helped me organize the sessions (special thanks to Dr. Denise Filippo, Dr. Hugo Fuks, Wallace Ugulino and Gabriel Barros), ESDI-UERJ, DI-PUC-Rio, and the guys at Microsoft Research Cambridge that kindly lent the necessary equipment.
This workshop was very nice, Eduardo. You’ve conducted it very well and gave us the opportunity to know the Gadgeteer products family. Now, we ALL want to work with Gadgeteer, because we saw how productive we can be with it. Somehow it looks like the other products of Microsoft, always driven by productivity. If we look to the past, we will see that the “Generics” of Java was inspired on “Generics” of C#… and it is quite an evolution!
I see the same thing with Gadgeteer. It is easier to work with, it has a lot of coding resources (although it’s a new product), and most of all: for our students, everything they learn is usefull because it’s based on Microsoft’s languages that are extensively used in software industry.