[skitzo]

Hey all,

I'm a high school teacher who has just been shunted into the computer science department at my school (grade 11 & 12). For something like the past decade, the students have been working with Visual Basic. I would like to change this. So, I asked around and apparently php MySQL is the way to go.

However, I don't know php - I'm learning right now - but I need some ideas (and a course) for teaching. I think the students would really like to make a game. Can anyone point me in the right direction to learn how to do this? Is there a special editor I need? We don't have php on the network so I rented server space for a year. If this doesn't fly, they have to go back to VB (which I don't want)

Has anyone taken a course and can tell me what they liked and didn't like? What I should keep for grade 12's? Perhaps anything I should cover? The board provides NOTHING!!!!