Microsoft® XNA® Game Studio 4.0: Learn Programming Now!

Appendix B. About the Author

Rob Miles

I wrote my first computer game on the original Commodore PET in Microsoft Basic, having learned to program some time before that at school, where I began by writing my first programs on cards using a hand punch, posting them off to a distant mainframe, and getting a message back (two weeks later) that I’d omitted a semicolon. A good many years have gone by since then. I’m still omitting semicolons, but the turnaround has improved quite a bit.

I’ve been at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom for over 25 years now, moving from the Computer Center to Electronic Engineering to Computer Science where I teach ...