{"id":287,"date":"2012-10-26T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2012\/10\/26\/coderdojo-at-the-scottish-parliament\/"},"modified":"2012-10-26T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:57:00","slug":"coderdojo-at-the-scottish-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/coderdojo-at-the-scottish-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"CoderDoJo at the Scottish Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/08\/programming-classes-for-kids.html\">previously <\/a>about <a href=\"http:\/\/coderdojo.com\/\">CoderDoJo<\/a>, an initiative to get young people interested in computer programming. I attended another session last night, this time held in the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sZb6FAzfbqY\/UIqHDrP_q4I\/AAAAAAAAO3o\/5miadfeBC3w\/s1600\/20121025_180829.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sZb6FAzfbqY\/UIqHDrP_q4I\/AAAAAAAAO3o\/5miadfeBC3w\/s640\/20121025_180829.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There was a fantastic turnout, with 27 kids in attendance, although only one girl. The classes are led by Craig Steele and are great fun. Last night Craig&nbsp;focused&nbsp;on HTML 5 programming. The kids seemed to enjoy it. The classes are a great way to get young people involved in coding.<\/p>\n<p>The CoderDoJo scheme has grown significantly since it was first introduced, and is now popular in various countries throughout the world.&nbsp;You can <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coderglasgow\">follow CoderDoJo on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written previously about CoderDoJo, an initiative to get young people interested in computer programming. I attended another session last night, this time held in the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh. There was a fantastic turnout, with 27 kids in attendance, although only one girl. The classes are led by Craig Steele and are great fun. Last night Craig&nbsp;focused&nbsp;on HTML 5 programming. The kids seemed to enjoy it. The classes are a great way to get young people involved in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}