Enough of the "grandma-bragging" :-) but seriously, my oldest grandson - and more recently my middle grandson do enjoy coding; a LOT! So, when they saw Coding for Kids: Create Your Own Video Games with Scratch, they were quite happy.
The first chapter in Coding for Kids: Create Your Own Video Games with Scratch is entitled; "Why Learn Programming?" and has the following quote - which I love; "Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it." Barack Obama
The goal for Coding for Kids: Create Your Own Video Games with Scratch is; "To encourage children not to experience technology passively, but to understand it and see it for what it is: a very powerful tool for bringing their ideas to life."
By engaging children in learning to code their own video games, Coding for Kids: Create Your Own Video Games with Scratch is actually helping them understand and learn a, "very powerful tool for bringing their ideas to life."
Coding for Kids: Create Your Own Video Games with Scratch
Author - Text by Coder Kids
Illustrations by - Valentina Figus
Publisher - Sterling Children's Books
Ages - 8-12
Favorite Features -
- Makes learning to code easy and fun
- Explains terms and concepts clearly and simply with both words and illustrations
- Includes all children need to know and learn for them to create and code six different video games!
I love resources which engage my grandsons and help them learn important things - while video games are not "important", learning to code is. Coding for Kids: Create Your Own Video Games with Scratch is a book my oldest grandson sat right down and read and one my middle grandson (who doesn't particularly love reading) will take the time to read, because he wants to know how to code.
I'm very happy to say, not only did Sterling Children's Books send me one Coding for Kids: Create Your Own Video Games with Scratch for me to review, but they are making another available for me to give away (USA only) on February 14, 2018. If you are over the age of 18 and would like to enter this drawing for one Coding for Kids: Create Your Own Video Games with Scratch, please comment below to share who you would give this book to if you win - clearly, I gave this book to my grandsons.
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