Andrew Phelps is an assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, NY. He is the founding faculty member of the Game Programming Concentration within the Department of Information Technology and his work in games programming education has been featured in The New York Times, CNN.com, USA Today, National Public Radio, and other publications. Email: amp-at-it.rit.edu
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Several of you sent me love/hate mail after the Guilty As Charged article - which is great. Some readers apparently missed the sarcasm running through the article - I do not think games are a waste of time, but I do think that they are perceived as such. Anyway, several discussions going on about that thread at various sites. I'll link up the discussions, some of them were good to read. Also - we *are* working on comments on this blog, and an RSS feed. Really. I don't run the tech for the site, but it is important, and it will happen (not just by popular demand, but also by author request