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Code Like a Girl: Rad Tech Projects and Practical Tips
Coding is about creativity, self-expression, and telling your story. It's solving problems and being curious, building things, making the world a better place, and creating a future. It's about you: whoever you are, wherever you're at, whatever you want.
Nearly everything you see on a screen is made from code. You see, with code you can have an idea and put it into action: it's your voice and your vision. From the outside, tech and code may seem puzzling and mysterious, but when you get through the door and past the first few beginner steps and your code starts to work, it feels like magic.
In this book, you'll learn how to:
- Code with Scratch--projects like making a dog walk through the park, sending your friend a card, and building a full-scoring game!
- Build your own computer--really!
- Create your own digital fortune-teller, with the Python language.
- Make your own smartphone gloves.
- Make light-up bracelets.
- Code a motion sensor that tells you when someone enters your room.
- And lots more!
Nearly everything you see on a screen is made from code. You see, with code you can have an idea and put it into action: it's your voice and your vision. From the outside, tech and code may seem puzzling and mysterious, but when you get through the door and past the first few beginner steps and your code starts to work, it feels like magic.
In this book, you'll learn how to:
- Code with Scratch--projects like making a dog walk through the park, sending your friend a card, and building a full-scoring game!
- Build your own computer--really!
- Create your own digital fortune-teller, with the Python language.
- Make your own smartphone gloves.
- Make light-up bracelets.
- Code a motion sensor that tells you when someone enters your room.
- And lots more!
- GenresNonfiction
240 pages, Hardcover
Published October 30, 2018
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February 28, 2020
Generally, I think generic "tech" books are not the greatest, but I really like the tinkering section. Readers can be bogged down in the technicality of the code sections and having those tactile and tinker sections really snaps your attention back to the attention at hand.
Scratch getting too word heavy? BAM Raspberry Pi section.
Python code really dense and complex? BOOM Tinkering section.
More than just little breaks in the text, they are interconnected chapters. This book sparks the natural curiosity that is within us all around technology and how it works. The illustrations are helpful without being overly simplistic or machine specific.
It inspired me so much that I was thinking of making my dad a new christmas tree game with the breadboard coding instructions in the back.
My only complaint is that the author is maybe a little too optimistic about the current tech/programming/computer science environment. Admittedly, my experience is primarily with mathematics, but it's still not super hospitable for women --at times it has even been openly hostile. At least, she is telling girls to claim their space and reject bro culture if confronted with it. It's bold and something that shows we've come beyond the days of Dr. Aversa's youth. That's something, but I'm not sure that we're in a place where the people paying lip service to women in tech really support them.
Scratch getting too word heavy? BAM Raspberry Pi section.
Python code really dense and complex? BOOM Tinkering section.
More than just little breaks in the text, they are interconnected chapters. This book sparks the natural curiosity that is within us all around technology and how it works. The illustrations are helpful without being overly simplistic or machine specific.
It inspired me so much that I was thinking of making my dad a new christmas tree game with the breadboard coding instructions in the back.
My only complaint is that the author is maybe a little too optimistic about the current tech/programming/computer science environment. Admittedly, my experience is primarily with mathematics, but it's still not super hospitable for women --at times it has even been openly hostile. At least, she is telling girls to claim their space and reject bro culture if confronted with it. It's bold and something that shows we've come beyond the days of Dr. Aversa's youth. That's something, but I'm not sure that we're in a place where the people paying lip service to women in tech really support them.
September 26, 2020
Another great tool for girls to use to get a hang on coding and creating other projects on the computer. Great, bright colors and easy to follow steps (for those who love tech). Great because is newer than most other books out there.
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July 11, 2019Read my review in School Library Journal.
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December 13, 2019Easy-to-use guide on learning to code.
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