{"id":113091,"date":"2016-12-05T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T12:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113091"},"modified":"2016-12-05T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T12:24:29","slug":"this-8-year-old-south-african-girl-has-created-an-awesome-traffic-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/113091-this-8-year-old-south-african-girl-has-created-an-awesome-traffic-app","title":{"rendered":"This 8-year old South African girl has created an awesome traffic app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8-year old Lucinda Coetzee from Belfast in Mpumalanga has come up with her own Android app that informs users about road hazards and closures in real time, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Tech\/News\/a-love-for-code-20161204-2\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s called Road Help, says Coetzee. \u201cSay you\u2019re in traffic in Pretoria, it automatically tells you where there\u2019s a roadblock and shows you another route to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lucinda is a member of Africa Teen Geeks and is just one of hundreds of young South Africans who are turning to coding as a hobby.<\/p>\n<p>She, the Africa Teen Geeks team, and thousands much older than her will be taking part in &#8220;The Hour of Code&#8221; which takes place in more than 180 countries around the world from 5-11 December.<\/p>\n<p>At least 92 of the 120\u2009000 events expected events will take place in South Africa, offering one-hour coding tutorials in about 45 languages, with no experience or prior knowledge of programming required.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the initiative <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hourofcode.com\/za\/learn\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/113037-baskin-robbins-ice-cream-arrives-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Baskin-Robbins ice cream arrives in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proof that anyone can get into coding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":113093,"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":[2226],"tags":[31,5496,5765,23657,2163],"class_list":["post-113091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-apps","tag-coding","tag-road-help","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113091","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=113091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113095,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113091\/revisions\/113095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}