The Department of Computer and Information Sciences presents a seminar on:

Build Great Apps and Games for Windows 8

Speakers: G. Andrew Duthie (Technical Evangelist, Microsoft)

About the talk:

Join Microsoft Technical Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie for a tour of the new Windows Store app platform that you can use to build great apps and games for Windows 8 and Windows RT. Andrew will provide an overview of the platform, focusing on the HTML and JavaScript app support, and how you can leverage skills you already have to make great apps, including leveraging existing script libraries like jQuery.

Andrew will also show off some of the frameworks, such as Construct 2, that are available for quickly building fun games for Windows 8, and easily targeting those same games at other platforms including Windows Phone 8, iOS, the web, and more.

Date: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013, 5:30pm (refreshments), 6:00pm (talk)

Location: 7800 York Rd, Room 459

RSVP is required.

RSVP and more details at: { http://www.meetup.com/MobileDevTU/}

About MobileDev@TU Meetup:

This event is part of a larger effort to bridge Towson University students and the IT industry and to increase opportunities for both groups. We find that software development meetups in Baltimore have little student representation and this group is aimed at filling that void. Please contact {modev@towson.edu} for more details.