Ready, Set, Code!: Coding Activities for Kids

by Heather Catchpole, Nicola O’Brien

Are you ready to learn about real technology and make it yourself?

Ready, Set, Code! explains how cutting-edge digital technology works and its surprising uses now and in the future. Filled with interesting examples, each chapter explores a different topic, such as artificial intelligence, sensors and data, and applies it with a fun, hands-on coding project. You will learn how to create your own chatbot, translate messages into different languages, construct a burglar alarm, make digital art and music, and launch a citizen science project. Plus, you’ll learn how to protect yourself online and much more. Suitable for beginners, this book provides illustrated step-by-step instructions to teach kids to code with the highly acclaimed Scratch programming language, popular mini computers and simple app building tools.

120 pages, Paperback

Published August 11, 2020

About the author

Heather Catchpole is a former children's magazine editor and science journalist.