Learn Python through Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales: Classic Stories Translated into Python Programs (Coding for Kids and Beginners)

by Shari Eskenas

Overview

Learn Python programming basics quickly and delightfully with classic nursery rhymes and fairy tales like you've never seen them before- written as computer programs! For kids and adults alike.

When you run this book's Python programs on your computer, you'll see the nursery rhymes and fairy tale stories printed out on your screen! As you turn the pages of this picture book, you will:

• Learn to code with your favorite nursery rhymes and fairy tales translated logically into Python programs
• Enjoy fifteen nursery rhymes and seven fairy tales written in both normal sentences and in Python code
• Be entertained by full-page, whimsical illustrations in premium color that accompany the code
• Gain the knowledge you need to write your own programs

Have fun learning to code through nursery rhymes and fairy tales retold for the 21st century. Get ready for storytime...and coding time!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781735907970
Publisher:	Sundae Electronics LLC
Publication date:	05/24/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	82
Sales rank:	650,840
File size:	56 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

Shari Eskenas is an entrepreneur, electrical engineer, and inventor holding multiple patents. Shari enjoys brainstorming new ideas and creating novel products that involve programming microcontrollers.

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides new programmers with a unique approach to learning how to program. Through the use of well-known nursery rhymes and fairy tales, the reader is led through learning introductory to advanced programming topics by building on previous topics. Learning how to output to the user through "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" to conditional statements with "Humpty Dumpty" and functions with "Little Red Riding Hood," the reader is able to apply programming concepts to songs and stories they already know. This book shows that programming is a tool that can be incorporated into the learning and advancement of any topic and that it truly is an interdisciplinary field." - Jeffrey Miller, Dean of Engineering and Computational Sciences at Southern Utah University

"Learn Python Through Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales does a wonderful job teaching important coding concepts. As a computer science teacher, I love how it takes beautifully illustrated rhymes and stories with which readers are familiar and introduces basic and then more advanced coding as you progress through the book. Learning to code in Python has never been more fun." - Michael Knight, High School Computer Science Teacher and GeekDad Contributor

"The combination of the fairy tale-style narration and boisterous artwork works extremely well, as it completely removes the tedium that often accompanies computer programming instruction for kids. There's no denying the importance of getting across the basics of coding to youngsters, and it's hard to imagine a more engaging, and therefore effective, vehicle for that education. A brightly inventive children's introduction to a widely used programming language." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From the Publisher

★ 2022-06-10
An illustrated book that aims to teach kids the basics of the Python programming language.

In this short work for elementary school–age kids, colorfully illustrated by Villafraz and other uncredited artists, Eskenas, the founder and CEO of Redondo Beach, California–based Sundae Electronics, crafts a simple narrative about a faraway land where an enchanted computer generates nursery rhymes using Python programs. “A program is a collection of code that can be run by a computer,” the narration notes, starting with introductory definitions. “Every programming language has its own set of rules for how the code is written, which is called the syntax.” In small, gradual steps, Eskenas deepens the complexity of the terms and concepts that her young readers will need in order to master this language, always offered in direct, easy-to-understand terms: “You assign a value to a variable with an equal sign (=), which is called an assignment operator,” goes one such passage. “The value on the right side of the equal sign is assigned to the variable on the left side of the equal sign.” The text uses different typeface colors to give different operations a clear visual element, and it’s all done in the context of well-known nursery rhymes that many kids will already know, such as “Rain, Rain, Go Away” (rendered as a program that begins “if weather == ‘rain’ ”), and more complex fairy tales, such as “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” (whose program features the line “if large_porridge == ‘too hot’ or large_porridge == ‘too cold’ ”). The combination of the fairy tale–style narration and boisterous artwork works extremely well, as it completely removes the tedium that often accompanies computer programming instruction for kids. There’s no denying the importance of getting across the basics of coding to youngsters, and it’s hard to imagine a more engaging, and therefore effective, vehicle for that education.

A brightly inventive children’s introduction to a widely used programming language.

Kirkus Reviews