Boy Scouts of America: Computer Merit Badge Boy Scouts of America: Computer Merit Badge

Boy Scouts of America: Computer Merit Badge

The Boy Scouts of America is a great organization for boys in the community to learn, grow, and have fun. These past few weeks one of our employees has been working with the scouts in a local Boy Scout Troop to complete their Computer merit badge.

The Computer merit badge has several requirements that help the scouts learn about the history, insides, and uses of computers. With most merit badges, the scouts get to explore certain jobs that involve computers. This allows them to learn about different careers in which they may have an interest.

The reason we are making this post about the local scouts is because one of the requirements for this badge is to write a simple program using a computer programming language. The language they learned about was PHP. This language allows website designers to create dynamic web pages, access information in a database, and has a multitude of other very powerful uses.

Whenever learning a new computer language the first thing that the programmer learns to do is printing text to the screen. The text usually is "Hello World!" Since this doesn't seem as interesting, the scouts learned to use a variable, assign text to the variable, and then print the variable to the screen.

Below is a simple version of what the actual code the scouts wrote as well as a link to the webpage their code is on.

<?php

       $variable = "Hello World!";

       echo $variable;

?>

The scouts' programs.

As an interesting fact this entire year the Boy Scouts of America is celebrating 100 Years of Scouting and next month is National Scouting Month.

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