"Have you ever wanted to build your own mobile apps? App Inventor, a free and revolutionary online program from MIT, lets you do just that. With the help of this companion guide chock-full of colorful graphics and easy-to-follow instructions, readers can learn how to create six different apps, including a working piano, a maze game, and even their own chat app to communicate with friends--then use what they've learned to build apps of their own imagination....

Designed for novice coders, this workbook will walk kids through programming and Scratch using comprehensive lessons and Minecraft-style illustrations.

Introduces the relevance of coding and shares down-to-earth explanations about coding principles and real-life stories of women programmers who work at such places as Pixar and NASA.

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.

"Baby's train is in the toy box- all the way across the room. Can Baby think step-by-step like a coder to get it?"--

Outlines simple steps for creating computer games using the Scratch programming language.

In this Definitive Java Intermediate Level Guide, you're about to discover.... Java is a program that allows you to use different techniques to do different things. Each aspect of Java is going to help you to better understand how the program is going to work so that you are able to use Java so that it can benefit you better. Here is a Preview of What You'll Learn... • Building custom code that is going to assist you in a way that writing normal...

In this Definitive Java Advanced Level Guide, you're about to discover... • The Java Interface — Learn all about the Java Interface and how it works • Java Packages — learn how to organize your code using packages • Java Collections — Learn how to store dynamic data types better • Java Inheritance — Learn about superclasses and abstract methods • Access Modifiers — Learn how to structure your programs properly with the correct...

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 thrilled to put their own imaginations to work.