{"id":8019,"date":"2017-02-03T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/?p=8019"},"modified":"2023-10-27T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T10:00:59","slug":"future-lego-engineer-zane-loves-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/future-lego-engineer-zane-loves-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Lego Engineer Zane Loves Coding!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Future Lego Engineer Zane Loves Coding!<\/h2>\n<p>Zane is nine years old and and lives in San Marcos, California. His favorite hobby is creating with Legos. He created a great project called \u201cHay Day\u201d that we really loved, so we wanted to learn more about him!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you want to be when you grow up?<\/strong> Either a programmer or a Lego engineer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your favorite thing you\u2019ve made?<\/strong> Probably the phone game. I\u2019m not finished with it yet though &#8211; there are a lot of things I want to add, and a lot of glitches I need to fix.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you look at the Tynker community projects?<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you working on anything right now?<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, I\u2019m making a game right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do you get the ideas for your games?<\/strong> I had a farming game that\u2019s called Hay Day and I liked it, so I wanted to make my own version of it.<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/ide\/embedded?p=571ab3f665e4f2df6d8b457a&#038;controls=yes&#038;autostart=no\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><strong>What do you do with a project when you\u2019re done with it?<\/strong> Well, I just save it and then whenever I get a chance to start playing again I start programming it to make it better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do you like to code?<\/strong> You can just make some really cool games and stuff with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think other kids should try coding?<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Zane\u2019s mom Sarah told us that she thinks coding is a perfect hobby for Zane, and is very impressed by his projects. According to her, \u201cHe\u2019s always enjoyed learning how things work and taking things apart, so we thought he had the right kind of brain for really enjoying the programming.\u201d Sarah says that, because Zane has autism, conveying his creativity through language can be difficult, but coding is a great outlet for him through which to express himself and his creativity. Sarah thinks coding is beneficial to Zane because \u201che has a lot of great ideas and great connections between things and stuff that happen in his head that coding makes really obvious to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for chatting with us, Sarah and Zane. We\u2019re so glad you\u2019re loving Tynker! We\u2019re looking forward to seeing what you create next. Keep coding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future Lego Engineer Zane Loves Coding! Zane is nine years old and and lives in San Marcos, California. His favorite hobby is creating with Legos. 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