{"id":6644,"date":"2012-12-10T17:37:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6644"},"modified":"2012-12-10T17:37:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:37:32","slug":"teaching-kids-regular-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/teaching-kids-regular-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Kids Regular Expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/dec\/04\/ict-teach-kids-regular-expressions\">Cory Doctorow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/dec\/04\/ict-teach-kids-regular-expressions\"><p>I think that technical people underestimate how useful regexps are for &ldquo;normal&rdquo; people, whether a receptionist labouriously copy-pasting all the surnames from a word-processor document into a spreadsheet, a school administrator trying to import an old set of school records into a new system, or a mechanic hunting through a parts list for specific numbers.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow: I think that technical people underestimate how useful regexps are for &ldquo;normal&rdquo; people, whether a receptionist labouriously copy-pasting all the surnames from a word-processor document into a spreadsheet, a school administrator trying to import an old set of school records into a new system, or a mechanic hunting through a parts list for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[235,234],"class_list":["post-6644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-education","tag-regex"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6645,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions\/6645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}