{"id":6935,"date":"2017-12-05T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/310973"},"modified":"2017-12-05T01:07:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T01:07:00","slug":"google-doodle-celebrates-50-years-of-kids-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/05\/google-doodle-celebrates-50-years-of-kids-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Doodle celebrates 50 years of kids coding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To kick off Computer Science Education Week, Google Doodle has featured its first kid-focused coding doodle in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/blockly\/\">Google Blockly<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\">MIT Scratch.<\/a>\u00a0 Blockly and Scratch are visual block programming languages used to teach computer science concepts to kids and encourage the next generation of programmers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The interactive doodle revolves around a basic educational game (<em>Coding for Carrots)<\/em> where<em>\u00a0<\/em>children\u00a0program a rabbit\u00a0across 6 levels\u00a0by snapping together visual coding blocks based on the language Scratch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Google blog post Director of Communications at Scratch Champika\u00a0Fernando recalls her time using Logo, the first programming language designed for kids.<\/p>\n<p>It was developed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\/celebrating-50-years-of-kids-coding\">Seymour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\/celebrating-50-years-of-kids-coding\">Papert and researchers at MIT<\/a>\u00a0who saw the value in teaching children about math and science.\u00a0Like Logo, Scratch was developed at MIT and builds on Papert\u2019s early ideas about kids and computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To kick off Computer Science Education Week, Google Doodle has featured its first kid-focused coding doodle in collaboration with Google Blockly and MIT Scratch.\u00a0 Blockly and Scratch are visual block programming languages used to teach computer science concepts to kids and encourage the next generation of programmers.\u00a0 The interactive doodle revolves around a basic educational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}