{"id":9345,"date":"2017-05-04T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/premier_developer\/?p=9345"},"modified":"2019-02-14T20:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T03:23:48","slug":"coding-with-my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/coding-with-my-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Coding with My Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we started the Premier Developer blog, we wanted it to be a reflection of our team, our business, and the things we are passionate about.&nbsp; Unlike many Microsoft blogs that focus on one technology or product, you may notice we cover a lot of ground here.&nbsp; Sometimes post topics are technical in nature, sometimes they are purely business or process focused.&nbsp; Perhaps the most important variables in everything we do:&nbsp; <em><strong>people<\/strong><\/em>.&nbsp; Highly productive teams learn how to work well together and the importance of a diverse, respectful workplace will absolutely impact productivity.&nbsp; Technology can be empowering and it starts early.&nbsp; In this post, Technical Delivery Manager, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/clouddan\">Dan Simmons<\/a>, reminds us that it\u2019s never too early to inspire the generation of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/04\/d21.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"d2\" style=\"border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;border-bottom: 0px;float: right;padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"d2\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/04\/d2_thumb1.png\" width=\"644\" align=\"right\" height=\"323\"><\/a>The Micro:Bit is a project in the UK to create an accessible coding option for youth. It&#8217;s approximately $15 dollars with some shipping and handling from the UK. After a quick intro from some folks at our Developer Garage, I thought I would finally take the plunge and have some fun with my five year old. I&#8217;ve always wanted to mess around with some of the devices out there like the Rasberry Pi, but I didn&#8217;t have any serious use cases outside of deterring robocalls (Ars Technica). I also felt my daughter, at least initially, would be more engaged on a device with tangible outcomes outside of the screen (like an LED array)\u2026&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/coding-my-daughter-dan-simmons?trk=prof-post\">Continue reading on Dan\u2019s profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who will you inspire today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we started the Premier Developer blog, we wanted it to be a reflection of our team, our business, and the things we are passionate about.&nbsp; Unlike many Microsoft blogs that focus on one technology or product, you may notice we cover a lot of ground here.&nbsp; Sometimes post topics are technical in nature, sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":37840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,3],"class_list":["post-9345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permierdev","tag-diversity","tag-team"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When we started the Premier Developer blog, we wanted it to be a reflection of our team, our business, and the things we are passionate about.&nbsp; Unlike many Microsoft blogs that focus on one technology or product, you may notice we cover a lot of ground here.&nbsp; Sometimes post topics are technical in nature, sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}