{"id":85,"date":"2009-12-07T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/?p=85"},"modified":"2020-06-02T00:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:48:04","slug":"cs-education-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/85\/cs-education-week\/","title":{"rendered":"CS Education Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the first ever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csedweek.org\/\">Computer Science Education Week<\/a>. Some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csedweek.org\/resources\/datacs-facts\/\">statistics<\/a> on the official site are sobering (&#8220;The percent of high schools with rigorous computer science courses fell\u00a0from 40% to 27% from 2005-2009&#8221;), while others are exciting: &#8220;Computer software engineer jobs expected to grow 45% over the next five to seven years.&#8221; Just think, for <em>every two<\/em> software engineers you find today, there will soon be a third. An incredible amount of growth.<\/p>\n<p>Computer science offers students avenues of self-expression, improved reasoning skills, and the ability to look at the bigger picture while not discounting the details. These opportunities alone are too good to pass up; it is essential that we work on increasing exposure to computer science and\u00a0decreasing the surrounding stigmas, from elementary school onwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the first ever Computer Science Education Week. Some of the statistics on the official site are sobering (&#8220;The percent of high schools with rigorous computer science courses fell\u00a0from 40% to 27% from 2005-2009&#8221;), while others are exciting: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/85\/cs-education-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}