A fun, accessible guide to computers and coding for older children and
curious adults.
This fun and quirky book provides a fascinating introduction to the
world of computer coding, organized into handy bite-sized chunks.
Coding, now firmly part of the National Curriculum, is a huge subject
and can seem slightly impenetrable, especially to parents, and that's
where this book comes in. Cool Coding contains everything you need to
know about computers and coding, from the very basics of binary code and
how it works, to the myriad things that coding can actually do, to the
brave new worlds of artificial intelligence, robots and cloud computing.
It introduces the most popular coding programmes taught in schools,
Scratch and Python, and shows how coding can be used to create websites,
games and apps, and make robots and moving vehicles, with the help of
nifty devices such as the Raspberry Pi. And if you've ever wondered what
spaghetti code, duck typing, snakecase or The Internet of Things are,
you'll find the answers here.
Packed with playful illustrations and inspiring information on the
amazing world of coding and computing, this book is the perfect
introduction to this most essential of subjects.