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A beginner's guide to coding using Python, one of the most popular computer languages. Step-by-step instructions show how to get started and write a simple program. New commands are introduced with examples and colourful pictures so by the end of the book, readers can code games, drawings and more. Includes extra help and downloads online.

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Louie Stowell has written dozens of non-fiction and stories for Usborne, on everything from space science and coding to the human body and politics. After working as an author/editor for Usborne, she went on to be an Editorial Director at Ladybird, Penguin Random House. She is author of the bestselling Loki novels.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1409599345
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Usborne Publishing Ltd; UK edition (1 Mar. 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781409599340
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1409599340
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 12 years
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.5 x 1.5 x 24.4 cm

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Louie Stowell started her career writing carefully-researched books about space, Ancient Egypt, politics and science but eventually lapsed into just making stuff up. She likes writing about dragons, wizards, vampires, fairies, monsters and parallel worlds. She's the author of the bestselling LOKI: A BAD GOD's GUIDE series, about the norse god Loki as a mortal child.

She lives in London with her wife Karen, her dog Buffy and a creepy puppet that is probably cursed.

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This is an excellent book for beginners as it covers what to expect ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 September 2017

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This is an excellent book for beginners as it covers what to expect in Windows, Mac and how to download the Python software. The book covers the topic of Variables as it states the purpose of a variable and data types. A section on the topic of ‘PROGRAM CONSTRUCTS’ should have been added before introducing the topic ‘MAKING DECISIONS’. This would have been useful to people new to programming and those with a little knowledge of programming but moving on to Python. I hope a section on the topic of program constructs is included to a revised edition to make the book very valuable to children and adults entering university or those in colleges learning programming for the first time. Another useful coverage is how to save your file and that ‘a variable is like a labelled box that stores information’, this is an area that is very confusing to a beginner programmer as they cannot visualise what a variable is so you have to bring it down to that level. Excellent illustration, this makes the book very useful to beginners. The lesson learnt from using this book is transferable to other programming language.

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The Kramers Family

Perfect for beginners

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 February 2021

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I bought this to help my daughter in her first steps into programming and she loves it.
The tasks are simple and well structured with advice on what to look for when you code is wrong.
The book takes you through a series of exercises to construct a dungeons and dragons style game.
This book is ideal as a first step for any age, but is primarily aimed at children and we use the book and the exercises as father/daughter bonding, which we’ve both really enjoyed.

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McGranaghan_Paul

Snowflake & Bat/Ball exercises have mistakes you have to fix.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2018

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Enjoying this book - a straight-forward and easy to follow introduction to Python.
I would just like to leave to notes:
[1] In the 'snowflake drawing' exercise, don't save your program as 'turtle' as Python will then try importing your own program in place of the 'turtle' module.
[2] In this same exercise, the snowflake will not draw properly if you follow the instructions (!). The code that tells your turtle to go backward(120) should be in the next piece of code so you should write:

def snowflakeArm():
for x in range(0,4):
forward(30)
vshape()
def snowflake():
for x in range(0,6):
snowflakeArm()
backward(120)
right(60)
snowflake()

Doing this worked for me. This makes more sense, as the turtle has to draw the full snowflakeArm before going back to its start point. The way the book has it, the turtle draws a sort of hexagon instead. Working this out helped me better understand the program.
Hope this helps.

Also: In the Bat/Ball game, the box asking if you want to play again won't pop up. To fix this I used two lines of code I found in another book {Coding for Beginners, by Mike McGrath}
The lines of code go between the first and second lines at the start of your program, so you get this:

import tkinter
from tkinter import*
import tkinter.messagebox as box
import time

Doing this made the replay button pop up.

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Sheila - London

Great Introduction to Python for any age group

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2018

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My child is starting a Computer Science GCSE and will be using Python, so I ordered a few "starter" books to see which I felt would be most enjoyable and appropriate. One reviewer criticised this one for being a "cartoon book", but I felt the colourful presentation and information boxes were more likely to appeal to a teenager, rather than the other more serious and dull black and white books.

The programs are fun, with silly comments like "Nooooooo! The aliens have outnumbered us. All is lost." and "The dragon wakes up and eats you. You are delicious." It is quick and easy to get started with the coding and it builds up skills gradually. I feel sure it will give my child a good basic knowledge of Python before he starts this element of his GCSE.

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Grimli Feendisch

Probably the best beginners python book in 2020

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 January 2020

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Excellent book. Up to date; 2017 and uses Python 3 (which is important as that’s what is used in most schools and I don’t want to go through version re-learning with beginners).

Find it’s just right for my 10yo. Great style and engaging for kids. This is crucial as Python is a bit dry at first as kids move from the immediate visual rewards of scratch to a command-line based environment. Did a lot of research before buying and few books were as current or as engaging for beginning python. I’d commend this to anyone starting python.

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Anthony Fielding

A perfect beginner book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 November 2022

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Cannot rate this enough to begin a journey into code.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 December 2018

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I bought this because I find you can't beat an Usborne book for getting over the basics of any technological subject. The book is entirely not "age-appropriate" for me but the illustrations made the subject fun and I can finally say I 'get' programming! The instruction builds up over easy stages into a product that children can interact with - I would definitely recommend this - it does what it says on the tin (cover) whatever your age.

6 people found this helpful

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MR STEVEN THOMSON

Easy to understand

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 March 2023

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Easy to understand for a beginner I liked this book

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Stephanie J

Great book for kids starting to code

Reviewed in the United States on 18 December 2019

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I used the first 39 pages of this book as the basis for an introductory programming course for three 11-year olds who had not previously expressed a lot of interest in programming. The exercises are set up so that the kids were quickly making real programs that were interesting to them, and it was fun to read without a lot of text to plow through. The kids all love creative writing, and the sample programs in those first pages let them build a choose-your-own-adventure type book in code, and they had a lot of fun adapting the examples to make crazy stories for the others to try. I had a copy of the book for each child to serve as a reference for them in case they worked at different speeds.

Ferran Marín Ramos

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Reviewed in Spain on 15 August 2020

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Muy buen libro de iniciación a la programación. Lo he disfrutado mucho.

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Faeyaz

The book is great

Reviewed in Australia on 25 August 2023

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If anyone wants to start, this will be the best book to start with.

Zayden

Great book. My son and daughter love it.

Reviewed in the United States on 11 September 2019

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Using for homeschool.

Kiran Kumar Somaroutu

Good one

Reviewed in India on 8 November 2019

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Good one.

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