A Beginner's Guide to Coding
Presents an introduction to coding for young computer users that focuses on the programming languages Scratch and Python. Includes step-by-step, illustrated instructions for a variety of coding projects.
Coding Books for Grades 3-5
We’re dedicated to interest driven learning at the Library and love taking deeper dives in the subjects that inspire kids. For gamers and non-gamers there is a world of computer science to discover. From kids who are mathematically minded, the future DJs, creative artists and fan fiction writer coding offers kids so many ways to express themselves. Often we are learning together with young library users, taking the model of hanging out, messing around and geeking out as school age kids tell us about the newest tech, games and cool ideas we can bring to the Library. Check us out to maximize out of school learning time with our app suggestions and educational toys popping up in a location near you. Ask your Librarian to see what they have planned. These books below will get kids in grades 3-5 started exploring the many ways to use computer science in their lives.
Code Your Own Games: 20 Games to Create with Scratch
With the help of robots and step-by-step instructions, this book provides all the code needed to build, play, and share 20 games using Scratch. The games are split across five difficulty levels.
Create Music with Scratch
Build your coding skills by learning how to compose your own music! Try ready-made blocks of code to produce simple projects and use them as inspiration and models for your own ideas.
Girls Who Code: The Friendship Code
Looking forward to joining the new coding club at school so that she can develop her app idea, Lucy is disappointed by the lukewarm reception she receives from the club’s other members, who work with her to decipher mysterious coding notes.
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code
A children’s book biography of Grace Hopper, who played a prominent role in the early days of computers. You can also check out this title as an eBook on Overdrive/Libby.
Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding
Meet Ruby a small girl with a huge imagination. In Ruby’s world, anything is possible if you set your mind to it. As Ruby embarks on her adventure, kids will be introduced through storytelling to the basic concepts of coding. With activities included in every chapter, future kid coders will be able to put their own imaginations to work.
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA’s African American women mathematicians to America’s space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes timeline and glossary. You can also check out this title as an eBook on Overdrive/Libby or as an eBook on Hoopla.
Programming Games and Animation
Colorful graphics and simple text work together in this book to encourage readers to create their own computer games. From story to code to animation, readers will discover the creativity and technology that goes into their favorite games. You can also check out this title as an eBook on Hoopla.
Robots
Explores how robots function and are made, looking at their computing components and how engineers design them with specific capabilities. You can also check out this title as an eBook on Overdrive/Libby.
Secret Coders
Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their wits and their growing prowess with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are going to solve the mystery of Stately Academy no matter what it takes!