Three Books to check out to get your child interested in coding!

hey this is Jason Miller of Jmillerworks! So today I wanted to show you these three books! Probably one of the most common responses I get to the question what is your child interested in reading about? or what is your child interested in? I get a lot of the same answers. Minecraft, computers, coding and immediately those interests turn into a question for me “do you know of any books about those” and immediately I respond with “yes!” One of my nieces is very much into computer coding and honestly I can attribute that a lot to these books!

One of the first I recommend is coding for beginners using scratch. Scratch is a computer language created by MIT for the sole purpose of it being used by elementary schools to introduce children to coding.

Now scratch is a drag and drop computer coding program and this book gives them step-by-step instructions on how to create games, how to create a sprite which is kind of like a character, how to make them dance, all sorts of things so scratch is a great place to start if you're new to coding because it no typing is required.

It's drag and drop, I even started coding using scratch so if I can figure it out you, and your child can.

The second book is coding for beginners using Python which is another language. This is coding where you actually do typing, where you're required to enter actual code through the keyboard, it's not drag-and-drop. Again this contains step-by-step instructions that allow you to do that. So it's a great project based book and it would be natural to follow after your child is pretty proficient in scratch.

It's a little bit harder so I would say that's kind of a level two after scratch.

Then coder Academy is brand new from Kane Miller(no relation) These books are project based and this book actually contains scratch, more scratch projects, but then the back of the book actually talks about how to build a website and it uses HTML coding. Which is similar to Python

(This article is for parents unfamiliar with programming themselves to check out books for their kids not explaining frontend and backend. I just wanted to say that before I sparked a million comments)

In that you actually type out the code. Now the projects in coder Academy using scratch and HTML it gives some projects and then when they finish your project they place the sticker there. But any of these resources would be awesome for your child interested in coding!

So I would actually probably recommend them in this order:

Start with scratch, Coding for beginners using scratch because it's basic it's drag-and-drop. Then this one is kind of a bridge but coder Academy has scratch and it also has HTML coding at which point they will need to be able to at least hunt-and-peck or type on the keyboard. Then lastly, I would end with Coding For Beginners using Python because it is exclusively typing, hunting and pecking to get that coding done. So again hope this is helpful enjoy three coding books and have a blast watching your child use his or her talents to do some very creative things with computer coding!