October 2025
Beginner
288 pages
5h 58m
English
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Introduction
So you want to learn to code! Coding — writing computer programs — has something for everyone: creativity, logic, art, math, storytelling, design, and problem solving. From toys and games to animations and simulations, this book coaches you step by step through coding real programs in real programming languages that you can share with family and friends.
About This Book
Many kids want to learn to code, but not all kids have computer programming classes at school or a camp they can attend during the summer. That’s where this book comes in!
Coding for Kids For Dummies will help you learn all of the basic coding concepts and skills used by real computer programmers. Everything you do here will be useful in learning new skills and more advanced programming languages in the future. Best of all, the tools in this third edition are free, online, and easy to use.
This edition of the book covers the following:
- Scratch, a learning language created at MIT that is arguably the most popular kid programming language available. This book features projects in the most recent version of Scratch — Scratch 3.0. Scratch is a free, block-based language that offers new coders an easy entry into computer programming.
- Python, a text-based language that is used in creating video games, training robots, and even making artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. In this book, text-based Python projects are shown in Trinket. The free Trinket online platform uses a web-based editor that runs ...
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