The Microsoft Technology Associate MTA certification is an entry-level certification which serves as a good starting point for students and educators who may eventually progress to the higher programs. Simply put, it assesses the foundational knowledge necessary to pursue MCSE, MCSD and the like. The MTA certification focuses more on knowledge and a little less on skills. However, the knowledge areas are all based on MS products so you must know those products inside and out. There are several objectives covered in this gaming development exam, including: Game Design Hardware Graphics Animation For the exam, programming language is not an issue. It is the concept behind the development effort that is important. You need to know that it is technically possible to use any .NET language to write games using XNA, but C# was the only officially supported language. However, since XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh you may write code using Visual Basic. In this book we use C# code for demonstration.
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