{"id":40419,"date":"2016-11-29T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T20:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindylorraineblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2016-11-29T15:03:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T21:03:35","slug":"open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/syndicated\/open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><em> --Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/cindylorraineblog.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/29\/open-source\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cindylorraineblog.wordpress.com\">Mental Droppings of a Tired Student<\/a><\/a><\/em><br \/><\/p>\n<p>When I started this blog I was wondering if I actually understood the concept of open source. That&#8217;s the beauty of crippling self doubt, ir forces you to research before even getting into a topic.<\/p>\n<p>I usually start off with a dummy proof simple explanation. The following video provided this insight beautifully, using the metaphor of a cookie recipe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='723' height='437' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tyd0FO0tko8?version=3&#038;rel=1&%23038;fs=1&%23038;autohide=2&%23038;showsearch=0&%23038;showinfo=1&%23038;iv_load_policy=1&%23038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As a student within the technology spectrum, I&#8217;ve used various open source programs. Here is a list of some of the ones I remember using at some point:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mozilla Thunderbird &#8211; email client<\/li>\n<li>Apache \u2014 the most popular web server<\/li>\n<li>Moodle \u2014 a free and open-source learning management system<\/li>\n<li>PuTTY \u2014 terminal (ssh, telnet, serial)<\/li>\n<li>OpenOffice-Replaces Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint<\/li>\n<li>VLC Media Player<\/li>\n<li>Audacity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/cindylorraineblog.wordpress.com\/1943\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/e1a8c5b3ad4dee392406d6c410e449ab.jpg\" \/><\/a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/23f68e266791539cbf1eb3aed19562dc.jpg#038;blog=115239300&%23038;post=1943&%23038;subd=cindylorraineblog&%23038;ref=&%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Originally published at Mental Droppings of a Tired Student When I started this blog I was wondering if I actually understood the concept of open source. That&#8217;s the beauty of crippling self doubt, ir forces you to research before even getting into a topic. I usually start off with a dummy proof simple explanation. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/syndicated\/open-source\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open Source<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-40419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-syndicated","tag-tc2027"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40425,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40419\/revisions\/40425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}