{"id":617,"date":"2010-10-03T15:53:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T20:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2010-10-03T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T20:55:44","slug":"cs-news-everyone-needs-to-learn-to-crank-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/cs-news-everyone-needs-to-learn-to-crank-code\/","title":{"rendered":"CS News &#8211; Everyone Needs to Learn to &#8220;Crank Code&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/douglas-rushkoff\/programming-literacy_b_745126.html\">Why Johnny Can&#8217;t Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This blog post has been flying around the SIGCSE and AP lists this past week, but I wanted to post a link to it again.\u00a0 This is a great post and one that we all need to read.<br \/>\nEveryone needs to understand how to write a bit of code.\u00a0 In order to truly create or innovate, everyone need the basic skill of code writing.\u00a0 If we are going to remain a nation of innovators, we need to teach kids how to &#8220;crank code&#8221; as these skills are often used to help cool ideas take root.<br \/>\nMy sons are both in elementary school and are learning to write code in Scratch.\u00a0 They will transition to languages like Python and Java when they are ready, but they are already learning fundamental Computer Science concepts like decision-making, iteration, and list processing that will enable them to create and innovate later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Johnny Can&#8217;t Program This blog post has been flying around the SIGCSE and AP lists this past week, but I wanted to post a link to it again.\u00a0 This is a great post and one that we all need to read. Everyone needs to understand how to write a bit of code.\u00a0 In order [&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":[8,33,13,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}