Discover how today's amazing inventions and technologies work while developing your coding skills In Smart Homes, find out about the technology that lives in our homes and buildings. Learn about motion sensors, create burglar alarms for your computer that use sound and motion to detect intruders. Each book goes inside a different machine or technology and explains the key computer code and systems that are controlling them. Step-by-step activities teach you how to create your own versions of these machines on screen, and bring them to life - with code! The focus is placed on...

Discover how today's amazing inventions and technologies work while developing your coding skills Recreate the technology that lives in space technology with code. Learn aboutgravity, create a jetpack game, program a spaceship's return to Earth and much more! Each book goes inside a different machine or technology and explains the key computer code and systems that are controlling them. Step-by-step activities teach you how to create your own versions of these machines on screen, and bring them to life - with code! The focus is placed on modern technologies that actually use code...

Do you love to play computer games? Have you ever stopped to think how they are made? Who makes them? What skills do they need? In this book, you'll find out about: - the very first computer games to be made and what they were like - the teams of talented people that make the games you play today - the different games on offer now and what computer games may be like in years to come - how you can make your very own computer game! Read this book and get your GAME ON! Game On! How Computer Games are Made is part of the Astro range from Rising Stars...