{"id":570,"date":"2010-09-02T20:31:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T01:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2010-09-02T22:08:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T03:08:53","slug":"cs-news-old-people-like-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/cs-news-old-people-like-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"CS News &#8211; Old People Like Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2010\/09\/easy-blend-of-old-and-new\/\">Kids Teaching Scratch to Old Folks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a great article about the HILR program at Harvard.\u00a0 Teenagers are teaching retirees how to write programs and create amazing stuff using Scratch.\u00a0 I think this is awesome.\u00a0 My sons, 6 and 9, both use Scratch and have attempted to teach every one of their friends how to &#8220;Crank Code in Scratch&#8221;.\u00a0 It is very cool to see kids sharing their love for Comp Sci!<br \/>\nDisclaimer : I am using &#8220;Old Folks&#8221; and &#8220;Old People&#8221; in the title and link for the humor aspect only.\u00a0 Retirees rock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids Teaching Scratch to Old Folks This is a great article about the HILR program at Harvard.\u00a0 Teenagers are teaching retirees how to write programs and create amazing stuff using Scratch.\u00a0 I think this is awesome.\u00a0 My sons, 6 and 9, both use Scratch and have attempted to teach every one of their friends how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,13,19,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}