{"id":814,"date":"2012-09-06T22:50:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T03:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2012-09-06T22:50:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T03:50:32","slug":"cranking-code-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/cranking-code-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Cranking Code Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/europe\/estonias-plan-to-get-6-year-olds-coding-is-a-stroke-of-genius\/\">Little Folks are Cranking Code in Estonia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/europe\/estonias-plan-to-get-6-year-olds-coding-is-a-stroke-of-genius\/\"><\/a>This is a great article that discusses the decision in Estonia to start teaching Computer Science in first grade. \u00a0I think Estonia has hit a home run.<\/p>\n<p>I have been working with my sons&#8217; elementary school classes for the last 3 years and have taught both classes how to write basic programs in Scratch. \u00a0They can all use loops, ifs, variables, and lists to make games and class projects. \u00a0It was cool to see many of them use Scratch to create their end of year projects last year. \u00a0I am positive that many of the students in these classes will consider a career in Computer Science as they all feel very confident about the subject. \u00a0Having working on numerous math concepts with my sons, I also feel these students now view mathematics in a totally different way after learning Computer Science concepts at an early age. \u00a0Working with students when they are in the early grades is very important as it helps to reach them before they develop any bias towards a subject often perceived as difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Folks are Cranking Code in Estonia This is a great article that discusses the decision in Estonia to start teaching Computer Science in first grade. \u00a0I think Estonia has hit a home run. I have been working with my sons&#8217; elementary school classes for the last 3 years and have taught both classes 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":[30,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814"}],"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=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}