{"id":198,"date":"2009-07-16T09:46:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2014-12-05T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:39:16","slug":"that-would-be-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2009\/07\/16\/that-would-be-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"That would be cool!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I talk a lot to prospective computer science majors about the great opportunities for <em>creative<\/em> people in computing.  Thinking outside-the-box is highly rewarded in so many CS application areas.  If you eavesdrop on a team of software designers who are building something for popular use, you would not be surprised to hear someone say &#8216;That would be cool!&#8217;  Of course, there are application areas where wacky ideas are not as welcome, due to security or safety concerns for example.  But compared to other technical fields, I would wager that there are a lot more career paths in computing that reward and encourage &#8216;that would be cool&#8217; inspirations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talk a lot to prospective computer science majors about the great opportunities for creative people in computing. Thinking outside-the-box is highly rewarded in so many CS application areas. If you eavesdrop on a team of software designers who are building something for popular use, you would not be surprised to hear someone say &#8216;That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}