{"id":172271,"date":"2010-01-12T21:21:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/12\/microsoft-nudges-kids-to-programming-from-the-playground-voices\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T21:21:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:21:37","slug":"microsoft-nudges-kids-to-programming-from-the-playground-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/172271","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Nudges Kids to Programming From the Playground [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>At an age when some kids are just beginning to play videogames, Microsoft (MSFT) wants to get youngsters to program them.<\/p>\n<p>The company just released an early PC version of a programming tool called Kodu that\u2019s designed to make creating a game simple enough that people under ten can do it. Microsoft believes the PC version of Kodu, which is free, will broaden the audience for the tool, especially in schools. Last June, it released a version for the Xbox 360, a game console that probably isn\u2019t at the top of the list of things schools want to buy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2010\/01\/12\/microsoft-nudges-kids-to-programming-from-the-playground\/\">Read the rest of this post on the original site <\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20100112\/microsoft-nudges-kids-to-programming-from-the-playground\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal At an age when some kids are just beginning to play videogames, Microsoft (MSFT) wants to get youngsters to program them. The company just released an early PC version of a programming tool called Kodu that\u2019s designed to make creating a game simple enough that people under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}