Coding for Kids: Python: Learn to Code with 50 Awesome Games and Activities

I have been exploring this book as a way to help my child build on their coding practice, and it has been a perfect fit. At first glance, the book feels intriguing and engaging. The layout, examples, and step-by-step activities make Python less intimidating and more fun to learn. The 50 games and projects are well thought out and make it easy to apply concepts right away. This is a great choice for parents, teachers, or beginners who want a practical and enjoyable way to learn coding. It strikes a nice balance between teaching core skills and keeping kids motivated through fun, hands-on activities. Would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to spark curiosity and build foundational coding skills.

I bought this python book for my 10-year-old son who loves to play with computers. He was very excited to learn how to code and create his own small programs with turtle. The book is very well written and easy to follow for kids. The pages are thick and good quality, and the print is clear and colorful. The illustrations are fun and catchy, and they help to explain the concepts and examples. The code samples are engaging and interactive, and they cover a variety of topics such as variables, loops, functions, graphics, and more. My son enjoyed trying out the code and seeing the results on the screen. He also learned some basic math and logic skills along the way. This is a great python book for kids who want to learn how to code in a fun and simple way. It is a good starter book to introduce kids to python in this age of AI era.

I bought this for my 8 year old son. Now I do software development myself, so I was able to go through it with him. This book is not bad. I don't have others to compare it with, but there were a few areas I think it could be better. I missed it, or there was no chapter on reading input. I would have expected that to be one of the first things. A program is input + process + output. And this book never touched on input. I think of a good "first game" programming is computer picks a random number and you have to try to guess it. That requires input. The first few chapters are just fancy ways of printing out variables. Second main issue is I feel like it spends a lot of time talking about the pedantics of the various ways to make strings and printing them, and I feel like too much focus was spent there. Third is that I feel like the content is not as "interesting" as it should be for an 8 year old. I feel it got a little too academic and not really relating content to things in the real-world or things 8 year old kids would care about. I would hesitate to give this book to an 8 year old if a grownup was not going to follow along with them or already knows some programming basics. Maybe an older kid will be able to follow it more independently. That said, the actual programming/technical content is well within the grasp of my 8 year old. But I don't think he'd have the patience to follow it independently because of the way it's written.

Norm- great book explains how to download Python for free. Easy for kids to complete coding tasks and also good for parents to follow along. Also introduces Python’s libraries. Great book

This book was used by my 2nd grader, and he mostly enjoyed it. There were not parent/child struggles. The book is well written. 1) Chapters are simple and approachable with some help from knowledgeable parent/tutor/teacher. The content is not boring either. They do not go on and on about syntax and its variations. 2) The activities are also simple for enthusiastic kids or teens. More challenging activities are clearly marked. The exercises require problem solving. However, they do not require any knowledge of computer algorithms. 3) This book does a good job of showing how to program in Python. It's mostly focused on syntax and not algorithms which is great. Doing both at the same time may be challenging for any child. If your child has expressed interest in coding, then this is a great introductory (sort of) book. If not, I would recommend starting with Scratch and simple programming toys as first introduction to programming/coding.

Tired of seeing your kids playing Minecraft all day or watching endless Five Nights at Freddies videos on YouTube. I was. Now I sit down with our 9 year old and teach him programming (when I have the time). Does he enjoy it as much as Season 12 of Pokemon Sun & Moon? Probably not. But he does enjoy some of the exercises and is learning the basics of a skill that he'll be able to use in the future. I know some basic programming ideas and have coded HTML and CSS for many years, so I feel comfortable guiding him through the chapters (even though I know nothing about Python). I don't think kids will push through this book on their own, but it gives you a good opportunity to pull them away from their computers and sit them back down in front of their computers -- to do something useful.

I bought it today. Will update in a month. So far excellent. Me and My 8 years old son loved it. Also I'll teach my 12 years old with the same book.

Read through this with my 7 year old. In the turtle module, the author jumps around from shape to shape. Every time, she draws a new shape, it's a new window while the books just continue using the same window and shapes are drawn over the turtle and other shapes. In the last chapter, when referencing the colors.py file that authors tells you to create and save, it gives a syntax error when typing "from colors import rgb_red, purple, yellow" in a new file.

Nice book but I would prefer more material and examples.Some chapters like strings are over analyzed.

Got this for my 10 year old. He already has some very basic programming concepts. I thought the activities would be properly fun engaging projects. But they’re not. They are things like using the shell to assign values to two variables then do basic maths operations. Maybe that is engaging for some kids. Not mine. Activities are explained well. But they’re just boring.

Great

Book Condition: Book was in good condition and pages are of good quality. got delivered nicely. Book Knowledge Level: Book is a good start for anyone who has never done any coding before, if you have any coding experience before then this book will not contribute much. I have read this book page to page so I can say it was interesting to see all the activities and challenges (they take upto half volume of the book). If you are an experienced developer ( > 1 year) then you won't probably spend time on those activities and challenges as they are very trivial. There are many intermediate/advance books available for a relatively cheaper price.

I was very impressed with how fast my 13 year old daughter picked up programming from scratch with this book. And for old programming veterans of C, C++ like myself it is a real eye opener on how simplified Python is compared to all the array programming we had to do back in the day. :)