{"id":8407,"date":"2018-03-23T17:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T17:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/via-google-is-making-a-toy-system-that-teaches\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T15:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T22:59:20","slug":"via-google-is-making-a-toy-system-that-teaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/via-google-is-making-a-toy-system-that-teaches\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AuRTS35ouTs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/6\/27\/12039902\/project-bloks-google-toy-system-teaches-coding\">Google is making a toy system that teaches kids how to code &#8211; The Verge<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>an announcement two years ago from Google that I forgot to share. I wonder where this project is now. It was coincident with Apple introducing Swift Playgrounds for iOS, it\u2019s\u00a0\u201chour of code\u201d-like, gentle, teaching environment for the Swift programming language. Last year Google and the Scratch Foundation announced a partnership whereby the Javascript-based App Inventor would adopt\u00a0\u201cgrammars\u201d (UI and UX) evolved by Scratch. This last development affords the possibility of authoring industrial strength programs with a \u2014 virtual \u2014 block-based programming\u00a0\u201clanguage\u201d. I have to put\u00a0\u201clanguage\u201d in quotations because the\u00a0\u201cgrammars\u201d are visual and semiotic, but not quite linguistic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if we need a better coinage. I suspect that Mitchell Resnick is willing to explore a\u00a0\u201cprogramming grammar\u201d which carries a different semantic nuance than\u00a0\u201cprogramming composition\u201d which would resonate with the vocabulary of the visual field. Scratch is a block-based visual programming language.<\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Google is making a toy system that teaches kids how to code &#8211; The Verge) an announcement two years ago from Google that I forgot to share. I wonder where this project is now. It was coincident with Apple introducing Swift Playgrounds for iOS, it\u2019s\u00a0\u201chour of code\u201d-like, gentle, teaching environment for the Swift programming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2bB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8408,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions\/8408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}