Teach Your Kids to Code: A Parent-Friendly Guide to Python Programming

by Bryson Payne

"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 Explore geometry by drawing colorful shapes with Turtle graphicsWrite programs to encode and decode messages, play Rock-Paper-Scissors, and calculate how tall someone is in Ping-Pong ballsCreate fun, playable games like War, Yahtzee, and PongAdd 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!"

Genres: Programming, Nonfiction, Reference, Technology, Education, Coding, Computers

336 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 21, 2015

Reviews

[Darin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great introduction to programming for kids, parents, or anyone interested in programming. Uses Python as the teaching language and provides information of how to install the free programming tools. I've been a developer for almost 30 yrs but found a lot of useful information here about how to explain software development to someone who is just starting. Also, I wanted to get an intro to Python.

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good into to programming, using python. Skimmed a lot, since I was looking for a book for my daughter.

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Focuses on Python solely (mostly Python 3, which is great since there's a lot of inertia in getting folks on Python 3 from 2). Teaches elementary/middle-grade aged kids programming concepts. It's a pretty solid book, but I think I prefer Javascript for Kids for actual projects and learning the language.

But that just might be my "Python doesn't follow most traditional programming style-syntax" bias showing.

[Don Watkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

A tremendous resource if you want to learn to program. This book can be used by anyone from parents, teachers, K-12 students and college students. It's a fabulous book that comes with great supporting resources.

[Victor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice intro and good use of turtle graphics to illustrate basic concepts.

[Dan]

Teach Your Kids to Code is a parent and teacher’s guide to teaching basic programming and problem-solving skills.