{"id":3351,"date":"2015-05-26T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2015-05-26T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:56:40","slug":"zuckerberg-games-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2015\/05\/zuckerberg-games-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg on games and programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/qawithmark?fref=ts\">online Q&#038;A<\/a>, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about playing games as a kid, and growing up to be a computer programmer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zuckerberg suggested that a lifetime spent playing video games could prep kids and young adults for careers as programmers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually think giving people the opportunity to play around with different stuff is one of the best things you can do,\u201d he told the audience. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely would not have gotten into programming if I hadn\u2019t played games as a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the engineers I know, who are the best engineers, are self-taught,\u201d Zuckerberg added at the Q&#038;A. \u201cIt\u2019s not because they took some classes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/insights.dice.com\/2015\/05\/22\/want-to-program-get-into-video-games\/\">Are video games the gateway to programming?<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/15\/05\/22\/1725243\/video-games-gateway-to-a-programming-career\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent online Q&#038;A, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about playing games as a kid, and growing up to be a computer programmer. Zuckerberg suggested that a lifetime spent playing video games could prep kids and young adults for careers as programmers. \u201cI actually think giving people the opportunity to play around with different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,56,94,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-games","category-programming","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}