World of C#-craft part 2: what does the audience think?

In a previous post I ranted on how cool it would be to use pc-game mechanics in a programming course. Before actually getting down and dirty and try to come up with an actual system for this I surveyed my students to see if the idea has any resonation with the target audience, the students themselves, or not. Now it is very interesting to mention this cool project by Jonas Swiatek who is actually implanting an MEF-based extension for Visual Studio 2010 to allow achievements while coding! More on this project in a later post, but you should definitely check it out if you want to have a feeling of how achievements could be used in a programming environment. Read more of this post