Get with the program

The current club members pose for their photo op.

The current club members pose for their photo op.

Osiris Collins and Luke Carter, Seniors at Jim Thorpe Area High School, have taken the next leap into the advancement of the knowledge of these students. With the help of Mr. Spirk, they have started a programming club for the students to further educate themselves on the building blocks of our high tech world.

“Technology, all around us, is controlled and regulated by computers, small and large, all of which need a language, just like we do; the language of coding,” Osiris Collins states when approached on the topic of the programming club.

In recent weeks, Jim Thorpe Area High School has opened it’s doors to the digital age. Yes, students have had laptops for months and desktops for years, but do students really understand the technology around us? Now they can.

“Why should I care?” you may ask. Well, everywhere people turn there is something else being replaced with a machine. This includes modern day jobs. Factories used to be full of workers making the products everyone need and desired. Now, these jobs are all computer automated. What tells these computers exactly what to do? Programming. Holding the power to understand and communicate in code will help with getting a good job and overall progress the world.

What actually is programming? “Programming to me is digital architecture, not in difficulty, but in process,” says Collins. While describing the process, he explained it as building something from the ground up with raw material. The something is programs, and the raw material is code. In the club, students will learn Python coding, one of the more basic levels, to form a good foundation that everyone will understand. The club will communicate with each other to understand how programs work, why they do not, and how to fix them. Here students will learn to use computational problem solving with the help of a computer.

Interested in joining the programming club, contact either Luke Carter or Osiris Collins at their student emails luke.carter@student.jtasd.org and osiris.collins@student.jtasd.org to receive information. Follow them on Facebook at “Jim Thorpe Programming Club” for updates and presentations. No experience is required to join.

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