Coding for Beginners: Using Python (Coding for Beginners): 1

Fantastic book for teaching kids and grownups alike. I've been working through this with my daughter and learned a great deal.It teaches through projects and games making the process fun and encourages you to play about and start applying code straight away. Good for ages 10+

This is an excellent book for beginners as it covers what to expect in Windows, Mac and how to download the Python software. The book covers the topic of Variables as it states the purpose of a variable and data types. A section on the topic of ‘PROGRAM CONSTRUCTS’ should have been added before introducing the topic ‘MAKING DECISIONS’. This would have been useful to people new to programming and those with a little knowledge of programming but moving on to Python. I hope a section on the topic of program constructs is included to a revised edition to make the book very valuable to children and adults entering university or those in colleges learning programming for the first time. Another useful coverage is how to save your file and that ‘a variable is like a labelled box that stores information’, this is an area that is very confusing to a beginner programmer as they cannot visualise what a variable is so you have to bring it down to that level. Excellent illustration, this makes the book very useful to beginners. The lesson learnt from using this book is transferable to other programming language.

Useful little book with clear instructions and pictures to make it fun for kids to learn python. The only problem we faced was that some commands didn't work and we had to Google the latest versions. Perhaps old versions of the book should be discontinued from the market.

Beginner friendly coding book, get your kids interested in coding. Small and easy to follow coding exercises. My kids loved this book.

I know this book is intended for children but as an adult in my 30s who has only recently decided to try and learn coding this book has been a great starting point so far. I'll likely need to get books aimed at people closer to my age range after this if I want to learn anything more advanced but I can't deny that the book pretty useful and informative regardless of your age. :)

Excellent book. Up to date; 2017 and uses Python 3 (which is important as that’s what is used in most schools and I don’t want to go through version re-learning with beginners).Find it’s just right for my 10yo. Great style and engaging for kids. This is crucial as Python is a bit dry at first as kids move from the immediate visual rewards of scratch to a command-line based environment. Did a lot of research before buying and few books were as current or as engaging for beginning python. I’d commend this to anyone starting python.

Makes more sense and covers a lot more in a short space of time than most programming books

I decided to buy this book to introduce coding to my 10 year old son.We've never done coding before so was excited to try this out.Overall the book is very clear and easy to follow but as newbies so to speak, we encountered coding errors on the first couple of tasks despite following the book instructions - line by line and word by word - still errors.It's a shame as we were excited to test these out but frustrated that we couldn't fix them to run the program - despite trying to find a resolution.The Dragonsnax and Aliens invading had errors. Will continue to try the rest of the tasks but can only give 3 stars for now.

This is very ok! I recommend this for everyone, except the fact that it teaches the bare basics and is full of ads.Happy coding,Meo

I used the first 39 pages of this book as the basis for an introductory programming course for three 11-year olds who had not previously expressed a lot of interest in programming. The exercises are set up so that the kids were quickly making real programs that were interesting to them, and it was fun to read without a lot of text to plow through. The kids all love creative writing, and the sample programs in those first pages let them build a choose-your-own-adventure type book in code, and they had a lot of fun adapting the examples to make crazy stories for the others to try. I had a copy of the book for each child to serve as a reference for them in case they worked at different speeds.

Muy buen libro de iniciación a la programación. Lo he disfrutado mucho.

Love this book

If anyone wants to start, this will be the best book to start with.