Code Your Own Adventure

Max Wainewright

ISBN 10: 1682973093 / ISBN 13: 9781682973097

Editore: QEB Publishing, 2018

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Bring a space, pirate, jungle, and knight adventure to life through drawing central characters, animating plot lines, and creating games. With easy-to-follow, illustrated step-by step instructions, this book introduces key coding concepts through simple and practical tasksâ "from drawing shapes and giving instructions in code, to building games and much more!

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Code Your Own Adventure
• Editore: QEB Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1682973093
• ISBN 13: 9781682973097
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Disegnatore: Smith, Henry
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Major Kate, Pirate Pierre, Captain Maria and Sir Percival need your help! Bring a space, pirate, jungle and knight adventure to life using the free beginner coding language Scratch. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions illustrated in a graphic novel style, this is the perfect introduction to key coding concepts.

Prepare to save Planet Zyskinar, search for buried treasure, find the Lost City of Gold and discover the Book of Spells! After an introduction to finding and using Scratch, you will embark on these four coding adventures. For each story, follow each numbered step of the illustrated instructions to draw the central characters and objects, animate the plot lines and create games. A glossary at the back defines key coding terms.

Choose your mission and get ready to code!

Informazioni sugli autori

Max Wainewright has written over 20 educational software titles for children, and many books on Coding. His programs and websites have won a number of awards including BETT, ERA and Practical Pre-School Gold Awards and are used by children throughout the world. In recent years Max designed and developed Espresso Coding – a website used by many thousands of schools to teach coding (now called DE Coding and a part of Discovery Learning). Max lives in London with his wife and two children, and teaches coding 3 days a week in a local Primary school.

Henry Smith is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He's an artist who was captivated by cartoons at an early age and never grew out of them. Now, they're his career and he's made a name for himself designing unique characters that are full of humour.