A Visit From A Programmer

We had a visit from a software programmer recently -- Seabury dad (and  yes, my husband) Mike Maitlen. The Gemstones and Navigators had all kinds of questions for him, but the most often asked question was "Do you make games?" He told us he writes Apps for Android phones, and though he does not write games for work, he has made a simple game app for fun - it's called "Jumpy" and is based on the old wooden pegs in the triangle game where you jump one over another and try to get down to only one left.

He showed us some Java code and then showed us how he uses programming for one of his favorite hobbies -- programming Arduino circuits. The students were fascinated - and many are highly motivated to learn and even to become programmers!