{"id":5482,"date":"2019-08-29T20:28:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T02:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2019-08-29T20:29:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T02:29:35","slug":"the-red-rocket-and-the-dangling-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2019\/08\/29\/the-red-rocket-and-the-dangling-else\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Rocket and The Dangling Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a cartoon on the screen at the front of the room. It was a hand-drawn thing, the sort I use a lot in class. The ground was green. The sea was blue. The rocket was red. &#8230;&nbsp;Yes. There was a rocket. What else would you use for a visual aid if you&rsquo;re trying to illustrate real world applications of &ldquo;order of algebraic operations&rdquo;?<\/p>\n<p>And then there was some code on the screen. Pseudocode to illustrate the point I was trying to make. An <span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 18px;\">if-statement<\/span> with a dangling <span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 18px;\">else<\/span> that made the code ambiguous in a glaringly obvious way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These were what they call a &ldquo;hook&rdquo;, something to get their attention. It seemed to work.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mister,&rdquo; one of the kids in the back of the room said. &ldquo;Did you really do this stuff?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I paused and then said, &ldquo;Yes. Yes I did.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a cartoon on the screen at the front of the room. It was a hand-drawn thing, the sort I use a lot in class. The ground was green. The sea was blue. The rocket was red. &#8230;&nbsp;Yes. There was a rocket. What else would you use for a visual aid if you&rsquo;re trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}