"An overview for young adult readers of coding, including discussion of various software programs, the types of problem solving that coding tackles, careers in the field, and activities"-- Provided by publisher.

Presents the life of Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the poet Lord Byron, who became a gifted mathematician and who together with Charles Babbage developed an analytic engine that was the world's first computer.

The stage was set for a showdown: Man v. Machine. On March 9, 2016, the AlphaGo artificial intelligence computer program played the board game, GO, against the world champion, Lee Sedol. The Game: Go is the oldest board game in the world. Games are perfect tests for A.I because they keep score. It's easy to see when the A.I. is improving. The Man: Korean Lee Sedol was the world's top Go player. He expected to win all five games of the match. Could...

Seamus O'Neill's Ready-Steady-Code fine-line vector grids have been included in Scratch by its makers at MIT (Boston). This set of assignment cards are the first to include projects that bring out the magic of the grids. The cards are also available spiral-bound as free-standing and flip-over for hands-free collaborative project-based computer activities by children. There are twenty four cards for children 12 - 13 years, grouped into pairs by colour...

Seamus O'Neill's Ready-Steady-Code fine-line vector grids have been included in Scratch by its makers at MIT (Boston). This set of assignment cards include many projects (e.g. card 7) that bring out the magic of the grids. The cards are also available spiral-bound as free-standing and flip-over for hands-free collaborative project-based computer activities by children. There are twenty four cards for children 11 - 12 years, grouped into pairs by...

Seamus O'Neill's Ready-Steady-Code fine-line vector grids have been included in Scratch by its makers at MIT (Boston). This set of assignment cards include many projects (e.g. card 3) that bring out the magic of the grids. The cards are also available spiral-bound as free-standing and flip-over for hands-free collaborative project-based computer activities by children. There are twenty-four cards for children 10-11 years, grouped into pairs by color...

Follow along as Sara organizes the toys in her room, experiencing firsthand the coding concept of sorting. Fun, vibrant illustrations and carefully leveled text engage young readers in a supportive educational fiction reading experience about fundamental coding concepts. A Let's Review! question further explains the programming concept and asks readers how it applies to both daily life and computers. Sara Cleans Her Room: A Sorting Story also features...

Seamus O'Neill's Ready-Steady-Code fine-line vector grids have been included in Scratch 2.0 and 3.0 by its developers at MIT (Boston). The projects on cards 16-20 of this card-set in particular, bring out the magic of the grids. The cards are also available spiral-bound as freestanding and flip-over for hands-free collaborative project-based computer activities by children. There are twenty cards for children 8-9 years, grouped into pairs by color...

How do computers know what to do? They receive instructions called code with the specific steps needed to perform a task. Learn how to create codes, what happens when instructions are out of order, and how mistakes are fixed.

Written with age-appropriate, easy-to-follow language, this book is a perfect resource for young readers interested in everything to do with computers. Readers will gain insight into the history of computers, how computers work, and what components each computer tends to have. They will learn how computer technology has changed and how computers have served different needs in different times. Through engaging text that's complemented by colorful,...