{"id":37,"date":"2010-06-07T23:22:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T21:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2010-06-07T23:22:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T21:22:33","slug":"learning-computer-science-with-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Learning computer science with Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lego is the greatest toy company ever and I&#8217;m not just saying that because my husband works for them. He and I have both played with Legos as children and kept playing until now&#8230; Even though there is officially no children in our household we both would qualify as children when it comes to Lego. Our passion for bricks is not ours alone; We know a lot of people who love Lego bricks.<\/p>\n<p>The computer science department at Aarhus University (my old hangout) has a Lego Lab and many fun og cool projects has come out of that lab the last 15-20 years &#8211; some more serious than others. A fairly recent project is especially close to my heart because it was done by a group of my friends. It is&#8230; wait for it&#8230; a Lego Turing machine!<\/p>\n<p>To promote it they made this short video:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"660\" height=\"525\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cYw2ewoO6c4&amp;hl=da_DK&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"660\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cYw2ewoO6c4&amp;hl=da_DK&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Geeky and beautiful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lego is the greatest toy company ever and I&#8217;m not just saying that because my husband works for them. He and I have both played with Legos as children and kept playing until now&#8230; Even though there is officially no children in our household we both would qualify as children when it comes to Lego. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[89,218,346],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky","tag-computer-science","tag-lego","tag-turing-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}