{"id":3778,"date":"2018-03-05T12:47:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2018-03-05T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T17:49:31","slug":"scratch-that-itch-to-learn-about-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3778","title":{"rendered":"Scratch that itch to learn about programming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s Modulator features a story written by Jim KA1ZOU about Mike (K1NPT) &amp; Beth Cullen&#8217;s ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rhodeislandsteam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STEAM (Science Technology Engineering, Arts and Math)<\/a> education initiatives here in RI.\u00a0 Both Jim and Mike are actively engaged in teaching activities that involve a programming &#8220;language&#8221; called <a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCRATCH<\/a> that is designed to hide some of the pesky details usually required to learn to program, while providing a fun learning environment targeted at kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/scratch-logo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3780 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/scratch-logo-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/scratch-logo-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/scratch-logo-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/scratch-logo-1.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Modulator article (<a href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Modulator-MAR-2018-Scratch.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you can find it here<\/a>) points out, not only can the program be designed on the easy-to-use PC screen, it can also live and run on an inexpensive &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/microbit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">micro:bit<\/a>&#8221; board.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Modulator-MAR-2018-Scratch.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modulator article<\/a> for more details!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s Modulator features a story written by Jim KA1ZOU about Mike (K1NPT) &amp; Beth Cullen&#8217;s ongoing STEAM (Science Technology Engineering, Arts and Math) education initiatives here in RI.\u00a0 Both Jim and Mike are actively engaged in teaching activities that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3778\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3783,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/3783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}