Description
Are you ready to learn about real technology and make it yourself?
Ready, Set, Code! explains how cutting-edge digital technology works and its surprising uses now and in the future. Filled with interesting examples, each chapter explores a different topic, such as artificial intelligence, sensors and data, and applies it with a fun, hands-on coding project. You will learn how to create your own chatbot, translate messages into different languages, construct a burglar alarm, make digital art and music, and launch a citizen science project. Plus, you’ll learn how to protect yourself online and much more.
Suitable for beginners, this book provides illustrated step-by-step instructions to teach kids to code with the highly acclaimed Scratch programming language, popular micro:bit mini computers and simple app building tools.
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Rights Available: World English ex. Australia & New Zealand, and all other languages
Author Biography
Heather Catchpole is a children’s author and founder of the phenomenally successful Careers with Code magazines. Produced in partnership with Google, over 1.5 million copies of these magazines have been distributed in the USA, New Zealand and Australia. Heather is a passionate advocate for science, technology, engineering and maths and an entrepreneur and co-founder of Refraction Media. Her goal is to create a digital future with humanity and creativity.
Nicola O’Brien is the founder of Code Rangers, a start-up that teaches kids to code and helps teachers to bring coding to their schools. She currently works at the Australian Computing Academy, University of Sydney. She is a computing education specialist tasked with creating and delivering engaging curriculum-aligned content on digital technologies.
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- Publisher CSIRO Publishing
- Publication Date February 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781486312351
- Publication Country or regionAustralia
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 29.99 AUD
- Pages120
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleEnglish
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions250x215 mm
- Illustration136 colour illustrations, 16 colour photographs
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