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Teach Your Kids to Code: A Parent-Friendly Guide to Python Programming Paperback – 1 May 2015

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Teach Your Kids to Code is a parent's and teacher's guide to teaching kids basic programming and problem solving using Python, the powerful language used in college courses and by tech companies like Google and IBM.

Step-by-step explanations will have kids learning computational thinking right away, while visual and game-oriented examples hold their attention. Friendly introductions to fundamental programming concepts such as variables, loops, and functions will help even the youngest programmers build the skills they need to make their own cool games and applications.

Whether you've been coding for years or have never programmed anything at all, Teach Your Kids to Code will help you show your young programmer how to:

Explore geometry by drawing colorful shapes with Turtle graphics
Write programs to encode and decode messages, play Rock-Paper-Scissors, and calculate how tall someone is in Ping-Pong balls
Create fun, playable games like War, Yahtzee, and Pong
Add interactivity, animation, and sound to their apps

Teach Your Kids to Code is the perfect companion to any introductory programming class or after-school meet-up, or simply your educational efforts at home. Spend some fun, productive afternoons at the computer with your kids—you can all learn something!

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Paperback: 336 pages
Age Range: 9 years and up
Publisher: No Starch Press; 1 edition (1 May 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593276141
ISBN-13: 978-1593276140
Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 2.3 x 23.5 cm
Average Customer Review: 1 customer review
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 78,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8 in Books > Young Adult > Computers & Internet > Programming
- #46 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Programming > Introduction
- #138 in Books > Children's Books > Hobbies & Interests > Computers, Software & Games

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"A straightforward, crystal-clear guide to programming in Python...Sophisticated concepts and serious programming make for an easy, enjoyable game for families."
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"Kid coders who have mastered the likes of Scratch, or older students who are math inclined and want to learn how to code, will find a worthy choice in Payne's guide to Python programming."
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About the Author

Bryson Payne is the Department Head of Computer Science at the University of North Georgia. He has taught computer science at the university level for over 15 years, and he previously taught middle-school math and programming.

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C. N. Amago

Good written and my daughter enjoyed reading it

2 October 2017

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Good and my daughter has finish the book already

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and I believe it's one of those rare volumes that's great for anyone wanting to learn to code

ByD. Watkinson 23 October 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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It's extremely well written, and I believe it's one of those rare volumes that's great for anyone wanting to learn to code. The title belies the fact that this book can be used by children, parents, teachers, and even college students. My full review is linked here, http://opensource.com/education/15/9/review-bryson-payne-teach-your-kids-code

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ByDustin Williamson 15 May 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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As an educator who has taught computer programming for a variety of years, I am always on the look out for new, fun books that could be potentially helpful to my students, especially when it comes to learning Python! Often times, I've found that the books that are designed for "kids" are usually excellent for adults as well, as the training tends to be superior in the way that the basic fundamental concepts are presented and taught.

Here's what's good about this book:

- Beautifully illustrated book (in full color) that's attractive to both young (and older) learners! ;-)
- Keeps the programs simple (a few lines in length) in order to illustrate the concepts being taught.
- Teaches students to create "visual" applications much earlier than most books programming do.

Here's what's not so good:

- The book is supposed to be aimed at teaching young "kids" to code, but its technical requirements are far more appropriate for an older adult. About 90% of this book is dedicated to drawing (via math equations) geometric spirals, circles, patterns, and smiley faces. It requires kids to have an understanding of geometric angles, modulus, order of operations, etc. If you're not a math "aficionado", you might find this book to be a bit difficult to enjoy, to say it kindly.

- Tends to introduce advanced concepts a bit too fast, such as lists (arrays), methods, instantiated objects, ranged loops, etc. in chapter 2, when in chapter 1, they had just learned how to create a simple variable and print the words "Hello, world" onto the computer's screen.

Over all, it's an interesting book. It has strong potential, but I think it should be renamed to "Teach Your Kids to Draw, using Math."

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ByJohn Glissonon 28 August 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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My son learned scratch programming all last year. This was a great next step (he is 10 and homeschooling in the 4th grade). He really enjoys the graphical and interactive programs he's writing in Python. I like that he is learning with a real, marketable language. It is very kid-friendly, with easy-to-follow instructions and code samples.

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Bymusic2meon 19 October 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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A word of warning to teachers using this book. Make sure you are running Python 3.x (3.0-3.5.0) otherwise some the code will not run and you will get errors. For example the code examples in the first chapter using the input will not work in Python 2.7 unless it is changed to raw_input. The author assumes all readers will be using the Python 3.0-3.5.0.

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ByDoreen Wardon 19 October 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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Perfect Christmas gift for my son.

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