{"id":771,"date":"2012-02-29T00:29:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T05:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2012-02-29T00:29:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T05:29:14","slug":"startem-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/startem-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Start&#8217;em Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer Science skills can be learned at any age. \u00a0I have been going to my sons&#8217; elementary school for the last 3 years at least twice a year, teaching their classes how to create games, animations, and stories. \u00a0I have taught them how to use variables, loops, ifs, and lists using Scratch. \u00a0All of the boys and girls in each class love it when I come out and they use the skills to create projects throughout the year. \u00a0These students all think CS is cool and will have no problem taking Computer Science classes in the future as they are comfortable with the concepts and idea of writing programs. \u00a0I hope that I have successfully planted the seeds for a whole crop of future Computer Scientists.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/education\/s_778158.html \">article<\/a> discusses the same idea of starting students in Computer Science early and makes some of the same points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer Science skills can be learned at any age. \u00a0I have been going to my sons&#8217; elementary school for the last 3 years at least twice a year, teaching their classes how to create games, animations, and stories. \u00a0I have taught them how to use variables, loops, ifs, and lists using Scratch. \u00a0All of the [&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":[8,5,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771"}],"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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}