{"id":336,"date":"2017-08-20T15:41:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T20:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2017-08-20T15:41:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T20:41:45","slug":"wanna-get-the-kids-interested-in-coding-make-it-a-game-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Wanna Get the Kids Interested in Coding? Make it a Game. Literally!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former co-worker and friend <a href=\"https:\/\/sqltechblog.com\/\">Daniel Janik<\/a> is trying do something that I will eventually have to do &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/sqltechblog.com\/2017\/07\/31\/learning-through-gaming-a-sql-server-tale\/\">get a teenager interested in something that can lead to a career<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve been teaching my 17 yr old SQL Server and other various topics. I have quite a bit of experience training technology and speaking but it never fails; after about 5 minutes his eyes glaze over and he nods and \u201cumhums\u201d and then starts checking his phone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have one nephew that is already intrigued by the PowerShell that I am doing and seems to have a genuine desire to write code. This makes me SOOOOOOOO HAPPY! My hope is that he is able to continue what he is learning now and migrate into a skill set that will afford him a good career. And if he happens to maybe &#8220;hack&#8221; into something that he shouldn&#8217;t have, I will help with his bail, smother him with hugs and kisses and tell him &#8220;OMG&#8230;I AM SO PROUD OF YOU!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out Daniel&#8217;s blog post, download the game and give it a whirl. I plan on showing my nephews this to get the opinions of the younger, not-a-teenager set. I doubt my niece will be interested in this right now&#8230;unless there was a Disney princess in there with the sea monsters. I will leave it to Daniel to incorporate that in the 2.0 version.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former co-worker and friend Daniel Janik is trying do something that I will eventually have to do &#8211; get a teenager interested in something that can lead to a career. I\u2019ve been teaching my 17 yr old SQL Server and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/?p=336\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[22,16,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sqlkitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}