Ever wondered if there are any inherent benefits to all that time spent with a controller?<\/p>\n
There are actually quite a few, according to a recent report <\/a><\/strong>by The Huffington Post which posits that the next generation of tech leaders will be gamers.<\/p>\n It all comes down to video games acting as a type of “gateway drug” to other tech interests, including computers and coding.<\/p>\n “That\u2019s the theory behind University of Colorado Boulder computer science professor Alexander Repenning\u2019s easy-to- use, accessible Scalable Game Design curriculum<\/a><\/strong>, which encourages students to build a Frogger-like game and simultaneously learn coding fundamentals.”<\/p>\n The idea is that this early exposure will have a long-lasting impact as gamers grow up and look towards choosing a profession.<\/p>\n “A study<\/a><\/strong> from the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s School of Interactive Computing found that 43% of respondents said gaming had a \u201cpositive influence on their interest in computing.\u201d<\/p>\n “With computing occupations constituting the number one source of new wages<\/a><\/strong> in the US (according to code.org), it\u2019s no wonder that parents once frustrated by their gaming-addicted, anti-social kids are experiencing new hope for bright careers ahead.”<\/p>\n Correllation doesn’t always equal causation, but even CEOs and tech leaders need time to relax, and what better way than with the games they spent playing in their youth?<\/p>\n Gaming your way to the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":107683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[31,22693,18301,1596,18479],"class_list":["post-107681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-features","tag-active","tag-boadroom","tag-ceo","tag-gamers","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107697,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107681\/revisions\/107697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read:\u00a0This research proves that videogames are good for your brain in nearly every way<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"