Get Coding!: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & Build a Website, App & Game

by Young Rewired State

Overview

Learn how to write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and build your own website, app, and game! An essential guide to computer programming for kids— by kids.

Crack open this book and set off on several fun missions — while simultaneously learning the basics of writing code. Want to make a website from scratch? Create an app? Build a game? All the tools are here, laid out in a user-friendly format that leads kids on an imaginary quest to keep a valuable diamond safe from dangerous jewel thieves. Presented by Young Rewired State — an international collective of tech-savvy kids — in easy-to-follow, bite-size chunks, the real-life coding skills taught in this engaging, comprehensive guide may just set young readers on the path to becoming technology stars of the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763692766
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Young Rewired State is a U.K.-based worldwide community of digital makers aged eighteen and under. The community allows young coders to meet like-minded peers and share skills. Young Rewired State members can also meet expert mentors at free events around the world, like the Festival of Code, and use freely available open data to build apps, websites, and algorithms to solve real-world challenges.

Editorial Reviews

2017-05-10
Young Rewired State, an online community of young coders, presents a guide for kids starting online programming. Readers participate as the coders in a storyline involving a recovered stolen diamond—in each of the six missions, their coding knowledge builds on itself in a natural, efficient progression of skills. Readers first meet the protagonist, white male Professor Bairstone, blue-haired woman of color Dr. Ruby Day (a shoutout to the Ruby programming language common in kids' coding books), and dog Ernest. In the first adventure, they ask readers to build a webpage about the legendary stolen Monk Diamond and its recovery, using basic Web code HTML with page design via CSS. Next, with the jewel thieves on the heroes' tails, they ask readers to password protect the webpage and give instructions on how to do so in JavaScript (the basic security's easily overcome, so readers shouldn't use it for anything sensitive!). The third mission is building a Web-based app—a to-do list—and the fourth is embedding a map to guide the heroes and the diamond to the museum using Google Maps' API. Mission No. 5 uses loops to create a reflex-testing JavaScript game for the museum guards, and No. 6 puts everything together to build a full website. Some missions are rather long, but they accommodate thorough explanations of each code element in easy-to-follow step-by-step guides. A fast, fun way to become a confident, versatile Web coder. (further Web resources, index) (Nonfiction. 9-14)

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