Coding for Kids: A Hands-on Guide to Learning the Fundamentals of How to Code Games, Apps and Websites (Learn to Code)

Delighted from the purchase

Personally I found this book phenomenally helpful.

Contrary to the title, this is more for young adults. The book is self-published and some pages are like carbon copies, barely legible. There are clear explanations of HTML, CCS, etc but I was expecting fun activities, anecdotes and other child-centric approaches. I may keep it for reference but bought a different one for the 12 year old I had in mind as recipient, one that started right off with activities.

Supposed to be for kids but found it too complicated

Terrible book the script code doesn't work its incomplete. No explanation on how to do things and there isnt 50 exercises they're to do tasks at the end of the book.

This book is a disgrace. It would put any child off from learning coding. To give one tiny example "creating three folders allows us to remain balanced. It exemplifies radical enhancement." What this exemplifies is the use of dense impenetrable language. It is accompanied by instructions which require the use of a second computer to carry them out, alternatively the instructions would have to be written down to be used. It's horrible to think that any child or indeed his parent would think that it was due to his/her inadequacy that they could not follow this book. Amazon should look into this and remove it from sale. Don't waste your money.

I have always been interested in coding for myself and my children, so I was glad to come across this resource. I always assumed coding was like speaking and using another language, so using this book was helpful. The author made it easy to learn how to code some of my favorite kid games (snake and ping pong). He breaks down the different terminology for coding. Looking forward to more resources from this author.

This was a Christmas gift for my son! He’s just gotten into coding and now uses this book! He references it all the time!

I'm pleasantly surprised at how easy the other explain coding in this book, although I think this book is more appropriate for teens or for adults with absolutely no coding experience like myself. Within the first few pages of introduction, I was able to finally understand what binary coding is and what a byte is. My only recommendation is to not call this a kids book but instead a teens book or coding for dummies, for example. I have kids ages 2 to 11, and I actually think this book is more appropriate for teenagers. I mean, my 11 year old would understand it, but perhaps at pictures or make it more entertaining if it is geared more for kids. Overall, I do really like this book as reference for myself since I'm level zero in coding language.

Great book for me and my little guy to get into coding! Well written and easy to follow along!

This was the least user friendly book I have ever bought as a teacher. There is code that can't be understood unless you are already a coder. Some of the code is written on dark pages to make it even more difficult to read.