Book Description About the Author DK was founded in London in 1974 and is now the world leading illustrated reference publisher and a member of the Penguin Random House division of Bertelsmann. DK publishes highly visual, photographic non-fiction for adults and children. DK produces content for consumers in over 100 countries and over 60 languages, with offices in the UK, India, US, Germany, China, Canada, Spain and Australia. DK’s aim is to inspire, educate and entertain readers of all ages, and everything DK publishes, whether print or digital, embodies the unique DK design approach. DK brings unrivaled clarity to a wide range of topics, with a unique combination of words and pictures, put together to spectacular effect. We have a reputation for innovation in design for both print and digital products. Our adult range spans travel, including the award-winning DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, history, science, nature, sport, gardening, cookery and parenting. DK’s extensive children’s list showcases a fantastic store of information for children, toddlers and babies. DK covers everything from animals and the human body, to homework help and craft activities, together with an impressive list of licensing titles, including the best-selling LEGO® books. DK acts as the parent company for Alpha Books, publisher of the Idiot’s Guides series. https://www.dk.com/ Read more Customers Review: A text that goes step by step with tables and illustrations on each page for Scratch, Python and HTML web design. The book starts by discussing what a programmer does, how they think and showing how problems are broken down to figure out your algorithm before you begin to add lines of the code.The pages are each a step in the process with pleasant, easy to read tables and illustrations, almost like a computer screen.The book is very basic but that’s what you need; long ago a boyfriend taught me basic coding by having me solve a math problem and obtain the algorithm I’d need, then I used Pascal (see how long ago?) to write a program. This is the same process except I had a bare piece of paper and you get this lovely book with very nice pages of steps in the process that are easy to follow along.Kids for some reason absorb coding like we absorb cold beer after work. Their minds are flexible and capacious and this book will really help them learn what coders do. But if you are a less flexible adult (bahah, I’m nearly seventy!) you can actually get a good sense of what to do to start some elementary coding. I used to know how to set up a lot of things in HTML but it’s gotten so different; I’d love to learn Ruby on Rails but didn’t have the will to dive in. This book will really help.HUGE thumbs up.
This book gets 10 stars!!!! This book is everything you need to FOLLOW ALONG while actually learning how to code. This book is such a lifesaver for those who need to learn coding in a crunch and for those who find it hard to self learn.Coding can already be a complex subject but this book literally draws it out for you. There are many images, showing you what to input along with coding examples that help you grasp the information visually. The book is super colorful and it’s broken up strategically well to help you stay on track. This is the perfect instructional book for everyone ready to learn. This can help the absolute beginners to the more intermediate level learners.This book will make you confident and want to use it every day because of how the reader/user-friendly it is. I honestly wish more instructional books would take notice, this is how an instructional book SHOULD be made. If this book was twice the price, I would still recommend it. TEN STARS!!!! I hope this helps 🙂
This summer, my 9 year old nephew is coming to spend time with us. He’s expressed a lot of interest in all things geeky. My husband is a programmer and I thought this would be a good resource for him while he’s visiting. After looking at it, I’ve decided it’s too advanced for him. He’s a strong reader, but it’s more geared toward an older reader. I showed it to my 22 year old son, who is studying Information Technology at college. He found it interesting. He’s way past Scratch, which the first section of the book is devoted to, but the Python and Web Technologies sections cover a lot of what he’s learning right now. There’s lots of great information in it. It’s presented with lots of diagrams and illustrations. My husband and son both like the layout of the book and find it to be a good resource.
What I really like about this book is that it is suitable for people of all different ages. Since kids now are so focused on video games and computers many of them are very interested in learning more about coding. I have a 15 year old brother. He taught himself how to make a website, has his own youtube channel and knows a lot about hacks for video games and applications.Like many kids, he’ll only pick up a book if he has to read it for school. This is actually a book that will interest him. It will also give him some practical skills that he can take back to his video games, help with his critical thinking and most importantly this should make him a more pragmatic thinker which will hopefully result in him making good decisions.The book is laid out very well. It’s not overwhelming or intimidating. I think it’s great for people of all different ages that want to learn the basics of computer programming.
I’m not going to lie, I have a lot of work ahead and have read 1/3 of this book, downloaded the supplemental material from the website, and as an absolute beginner who needs step by step help to learn about coding and what it means, this is going to take me some time. This book is very well organized to keep the reader focused and on track. I am an adult who never played video games, well not really. But, I am a business person who wants apps and I was thinking it’d be cool to be able to build an app to do what I need and it’s not available. I did program a game once, a very long time ago in basic, and it was fun. That book was huge and thick, and I did it. This book should help me to know languages, and which ones to use for what.My basic comprehension is improving and I’m hopeful. But, I’m not going to lie, this is going to be a challenge and this book is going to help to make this app thing happen. I recommend this book, the web site and supporting materials. There is a world of information online, which of course is hard to resist so I’m sticking to the book for now and telling my brain, ‘you can do this.’ Highly recommended as a first book for anyone, even me.
This is a really good intro to coding book. It covers multiple languages, Scratch, Python, and the basics needed to create a website (CSS, HTML, JavaScript). I wish C++ was included as well, but it’s not. It has an overview of why to code, how to code etc. It also has step by step learning with projects that are both educational and fun. Learning by doing is always best. The projects at clearly laid out with illustrations and color blocks to make each step clear. My 6 year old was able to follow along and complete the projects. Each project has a summary of what you will learn, how difficult it is, and about how long it takes to complete at the beginning. I think it’s an ideal intro book for an 8-12 year old who is interested in coding, though adults can certainly learn from it too. For people with more coding experience, you will want a more advanced book that focuses on one area or programming language instead of giving a more general familiarity with several languages. |
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