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Kids Can Now Learn To Code With Pocky, the Delicious Japanese Snack (theverge.com)
Dami Lee, writing for The Verge: Even if you didn't grow up in Asia, chances are you've had this ubiquitous Japanese snack before. Walk into most grocery stores in America and you'll find a box of Pocky, and in multiple flavors like strawberry and green tea if your supermarket is fancy. With over dozens of flavors and variations, there's a Pocky for all occasions! There's a Pocky for Men. Now, there's Pocky for kids, with an educational aspect. Pocky's maker, Glico, has made a game called Glicode (Like if Wilco made a coding game called Wilcode) that gets kids coding by having them arrange actual cookies and snacks, then snapping a photo to translate them into digital commands. Glico's other products like Almond Peak chocolates and Biscuit Cream Sands are also featured in the game, representing "if" and "sequence" commands, respectively. It's a lot like Apple's Swift Playgrounds, with simple programming tasks commanding a funny-looking blob to walk around on platform blocks. The app is only available on Android for now.
They just need to add arrows to Luck Charms and then I can program my Big Trak at my breakfast table!
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It was delicious.
True, most people have trouble putting their shoes on in the morning and find talking about other people's sports exploits to be enjoyable. But they can code.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
I've always used the verb 'program' and I'm not sure when 'code' started being used as a verb. For me 'program' is a more accurate term when you look at the definition:
1. a plan of action to accomplish a specified end.
2. a plan or schedule of activities, procedures, etc., to be followed.
A computer program is essentially a series of commands to achieve a specific task, which fits with the meaning and is clearly the correct verb to use. 'Code' is far less accurate and it sounds like you're simply trying to make the information difficult to decipher father than actually achieve anything.
When I see the term 'code' I always think it's written be some moron from middle management who wants to sound trendy, but really doesn't know anything about anything. Using 'code' is a lot like replacing 'write' with 'word'. Words are what you write, while writing is the verb. Likewise, code is what you write and programming is the verb.
Anyway, from this point forth a declare that anyone who uses 'code' as a verb will be summarily executed.
It's like seeing everyone I knew in junior high, all over again.
I just don't get it. Is it the shape? Certainly can't be the taste. There are far, far, FAR better chocolate covered cookies around. Pocky is more like a cheap, flavorless bread stick barely covered in chocolate.
It's a true statement. You obviously haven't had to maintain any of that "code" you speak of.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Not this shit again.
Look, if you want to teach someone programming, even kids, teach them the actual basics of programing: loops, if/then, and what variables are. Most 6-year olds are able to grasp this stuff.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I know this is just going to blow people away... But the world can not function with programmers alone. I know, right? MIND BLOWN!
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Anyone can write code. It's no different than learning a foreign language.
What most people CAN'T do, is learn to say something intelligent in their chosen language.
do u thnk millaniels ken L2 use C sintax proparly?
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
Like all skills, you get better with practice.
Any idiot can build a cabinet. The second will bet better than the first, and so on.
Any idiot can paint a house. Again, you get better as you go along.
Any idiot can cook a steak. The first few might be a bit rough, but it won't be long before their preparation is near expert.
Any idiot can code, this is true. Programming is ridiculously simple. Children can, and often do, teach themselves. You probably taught yourself when you were a preteen, like millions of other kids. If you kept at it, you got better. Like all skills, you improve with practice.
Now, ask yourself, do you really want any asshole to code for you?
Well, I wouldn't hire you, for reasons completely unrelated to your skill as a developer.
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No Pocky for Kitty.
Advertising slogan: An incomprehensible data processing algorithm in every spoonful!
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
I haven't been living under a rock all my life. I travel. I'm not blind. I wasn't raised by wolves.
I've never seen or heard of these things before reading this article.
I think 'all those assholes' out there will be a little smarter in many aspects of their life once they learn to code. It's a reasoning skill. Just like, yes, a little bit of knowledge in ALL those fields you mentioned makes everybody a little better, and should be encouraged.
do u thnk millaniels ken L2 use C sintax proparly?
Yes, and some of them will be better programmers than you or I.
I wonder what regions don't have them? I wouldn't be able to find a decent size grocery store within a hundred miles of here (Pacific Northwest) that didn't have Pocky.
I've never had pocky, but ages and ages ago I ran across this poem that I loved so much I kept a copy. Recently I realized it had fallen off the internet, so now I'm reposting it out of civic duty.
Koala’s march:
The flavor of strawberry, of Koala’s march
Do you know?
In the inside of Koala’s march
A part of chocolates tastes of its flavor of strawberry.
Eat it,
And you taste giant strawberry pockey.
Therefore, next time, part 2 (last time)
I wish you are looking forward to.
I have what it must say to you by all means.
The koala’s march, the flavor of strawberry,
Is not sold in Hokkaido regrettably.
The taste was written last time.
But its koala has eyebrow,
And you may feel tasteless.
Bye.
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