How To Be a Coder: Learn to Think like a Coder with Fun Activities, then Code in Scratch 3.0 Online!

My son loves it, good graphics

This book is absolutely amazing! It’s full of fun and practical “unplugged” activities that help kids learn coding concepts. An absolute must buy for anyone interested in preparing kids for the 21st century.

Excellent book. Great ideas for a classroom with no technology.

How to Be a Coder is an excellent introduction to the basics of programming and Scratch.

This new title by US author Kiki Prottsman is a nice general introduction to coding for younger children - say 7-9 years old. It's nicely presented, as you would expect from DK, with lots of photographs, drawings and age-appropriate text, which explains coding at a simple level by use of lots of "offline" or "unplugged" activities, some hands-on coding activities using the ubiquitous Scratch programming language, as well as a smattering of double-page spreads about key people involved in the development of computing - Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Katherine Johnson, Bill Gates and someone new to me - Satoru Iwata. I enjoyed reading "How to be a Coder" and I am sure it will be useful reference title for teachers who dread delivering Computer Science lessons in primary schools - a nice book, too, for the classroom library. I have marked the book down a star as for me the most interesting part was the key people - I am sure more than 5 featured computing science personalities would be better and give the book a little more authority.