Official Scratchjr Book: Help Your Kids Learn to Code by Bers, Marina Umaschi

Official Scratchjr Book: Help Your Kids Learn to Code (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780606385046)

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Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Official Scratchjr Book: Help Your Kids Learn to Code by Bers, Marina Umaschi

Official Scratchjr Book: Help Your Kids Learn to Code

$35.30
Official Scratchjr Book: Help Your Kids Learn to Code by Bers, Marina Umaschi

Official Scratchjr Book: Help Your Kids Learn to Code

$35.30
Format: Hardcover
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ScratchJr is a free, introductory computer programming language that runs on iPads and Android tablets. Inspired by Scratch, the wildly popular programming language used by millions of children worldwide, ScratchJr helps even younger kids create their own playful animations, interactive stories, and dynamic games.

"The Official ScratchJr Book" is the perfect companion to this free app and makes coding easy and fun for all. Kids learn to program by connecting blocks of code to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing.

Each chapter includes several activities that build on one another, culminating in a fun final project. These hands-on activities help kids develop computational-thinking, problem-solving, and design skills. In each activity, you'll find: Step-by-step, easy-to-follow directionsWays to connect the activity with literacy and math conceptsTips for grown-ups and teachersCreative challenges to take the learning further

By the end of the book, kids will be ready for all sorts of new programming adventures

Author: Marina Umaschi Bers, Mitchel Resnick
ISBN-10: 0606385045
ISBN-13: 9780606385046
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2015
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.20w x 0.60d

By Marina Umaschi Bers
By Marina Umaschi Bers
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Marina Umaschi Bers is a professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Child Study and Human Development and adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University. She heads the Developmental Technologies Research group where she studies innovative ways to promote positive childhood development through new learning technologies. She is also the creator of KIBO, a robotics platform for children 4 to 7, which allows young builders to learn programming and engineering without screens by integrating arts and crafts.

Mitchel Resnick is the creator of Scratch, the wildly popular programming language used in thousands of schools and homes worldwide, with nearly 4 million users. He directs the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab and was awarded the McGraw Prize in Education in 2011 for his creative learning technologies.

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