{"id":706,"date":"2013-03-01T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benincosa.com\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2014-11-19T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:24:32","slug":"use-bash-to-teach-kids-to-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Use Bash to teach kids to program"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to try to teach my 9 year old to program this weekend. \u00a0My first thought was to do scratch, and that seems kind of good, but I think BASH might just be a great place to go as well.<\/p>\n

Bash is found on the MAC and Linux which comprises every computer in our house. \u00a0(we have a few windows VMs here and there but nothing we use). \u00a0And bash is fun cause you can get familiar with the command line. \u00a0We’ll start by using pico maybe? \u00a0And do a simple hello world program first:<\/p>\n

Program #1:<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/bash
\necho “Hello World!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s pretty easy, but the next fun thing is to make it ask and answer a question:<\/p>\n

Program #2:<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/bash<\/p>\n

echo “What is your favorite color?”
\nread color
\necho “${color} is a nice color”<\/p>\n

 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Program #3:<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/bash<\/p>\n

echo “What is your favorite color?”
\nread color
\necho “${color} is a nice color”
\nif [ “$color” == “red” ]
\nthen
\necho ${color} is my favorite!
\nfi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Program #4<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/bash
\necho “Can you guess my favorite color?”
\nwhile true
\ndo
\nread color
\nif [ “$color” == “red” ]
\nthen
\necho “You guessed it! ${color} is my favorite color!”
\nbreak
\nelse
\necho “Nope. $color is not my favorite color. Guess again!”
\nfi
\ndone<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ll probably make it ask a few other questions and then some other cool things. Might be fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to try to teach my 9 year old to program this weekend. \u00a0My first thought was to do scratch, and that seems kind of good, but I think BASH might just be a great place to go as well. Bash is found on the MAC and Linux which comprises every computer in our…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166],"tags":[173,172,171],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}