{"id":18807,"date":"2019-09-11T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/?p=18807"},"modified":"2023-03-08T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T00:32:28","slug":"triston-experiments-with-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/triston-experiments-with-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Triston Experiments with Code!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Triston Experiments&nbsp;with&nbsp;Code!<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Featured Maker Triston from West Virginia is twelve years old and loves to learn new things! He is in the 5th grade and science is his favorite subject. Outside of school, Triston likes to play with dogs, play video games, write, draw and code. He wants to be an astrophysicist when he grows up! We were lucky enough to chat with Triston and his mom Amy about why he loves to code!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you get introduced to Tynker and how long have you been coding? <\/strong>I\u2019ve been coding since 4th grade and I got introduced to Tynker in the 5th since we got our iPads. It\u2019s just a nice app, how it works, there\u2019s so much control in what you can do and what you can\u2019t do. You can do basically anything you want to do. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you learn how to use Tynker when you were first starting out? <\/strong>When I first started out, I just looked at other projects. Then I started trying it on my own to see what I could do.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How have your coding skills improved since you started using Tynker? <\/strong>Yes, just being able to make things, do things. I was just putting stuff together to see what it would do at first. 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I just like it because it just gives you that feeling that you can do anything on Tynker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"> <br>\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/ide\/embedded?p=5ba1ca569353db5d5f1673a8&#038;controls=yes&#038;autostart=no\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n   <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where did you get the idea for your favorite project? <\/strong>I got the idea because I saw a couple things like it. 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