{"id":398,"date":"2012-01-03T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mik\/?p=398"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:45:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:45:56","slug":"joc-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/2012\/01\/03\/joc-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Code, #1: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 Everything that is worth doing is worth doing well.<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<em>\u00a0<em>\u00a0<em>\u00a0<em><em>\u00a0<em>\u00a0<em>\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em>\u2014 proverb\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is the first instalment of the Joy of Code programming tutorial. No coding yet \u2014 this intro just shows you what you&#8217;re getting into if you choose to follow this tutorial.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Joy Of Code: Introduction\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P6mu-GC194U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/mov\/JOC-1.mov\">Download video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are itching to get your hands dirty and start coding: great! That&#8217;s the kind of reader I like. Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ll get there very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Links mentioned in the video:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenfoot web site<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Greenfoot scenarios shown in video:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/material\/ants.zip\">ants<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/material\/asteroids.zip\">asteroids<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/material\/fatcat.zip\">fatcat<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/material\/little-crab.zip\">little-crab<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/material\/marbles.zip\">marbles<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/material\/piano.zip\">piano<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/material\/wave.zip\">wave<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/material\/wombats.zip\">wombats<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(Note: At this stage you are not expected to do anything with these scenarios yet. These are just here for those of you curious to play without waiting for me to introduce things.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/static\/joc\/mov\/JOC-1.mov\">Download video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Everything that is worth doing is worth doing well.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 proverb\u00a0 Here is the first instalment of the Joy of Code programming tutorial. No coding yet \u2014 this intro just shows you what you&#8217;re getting into if you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/2012\/01\/03\/joc-intro\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenfoot-software-tools","category-joy-of-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}