Helping Kids with Coding for Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119380672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str.

Camille McCue

Opis

Your first step to learning coding Learning coding may lead to a high-paying job someday. Or it may teach you how to build a cool game you can show off to your friends. Or it may help you with math and science homework. Either way, it never hurts to add a little knowledge about how computers and technology work to your growing skills. This book walks you through 15 projects that teach basic coding concepts and explain how the skills can apply to bigger coding projects down the road. Inside... See how coding is like math
Learn how to apply logic
Build an art toy
Create a simple game
Move into animation
Build a counting app
Discover how to test and debug
Share work with friends
Advice for teachers and parents

O autorze

Camille McCue, PhD, is Director of Curriculum Innovations at the Adelson Educational Campus in Las Vegas where she leads the Startup Incubator, teaches STEM, and kickstarts K–12 learning initiatives. Sarah Guthals, PhD, co–founded an ed–tech company and now continues to build technology for kids to learn, create, and share safely online. She loves to teach teachers how to teach coding in the classroom.

Blurb

• Coach kids in coding even if you′ve never coded
• Build young coders′ skills in multiple coding languages
• Help kids write code for apps, games, and gadgets

Need help catching up with the kids?

What do you do when it′s your turn to help a young learner start on their coding journey but you never learned how to code yourself? You learn about it! Grasping the basics of coding is made easy with this book. Bewildered parents, teachers, or mentors who didn′t learn coding in school will make up for lost time with this hands–on, practical guide. Each chapter features lessons on the fundamentals of coding, code snippets, and coding projects that introduce you to different languages. Look what you can do!

Inside

• Play unplugged coding games
• Choose a coding language
• Create simple word games
• Add sound and graphics
• Apply math skills to coding
• Develop a web page
• Build and code electronics
• Select a coding curriculum
• Meet famous programmers