Girls Who Code
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Average rating4.5
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai, and John Legend. Since 2012, the organization Girls Who Code has taught computing skills to and inspired over 40,000 girls across America. Now its founder, and author Brave Not Perfect, Reshma Saujani, wants to inspire you to be a girl who codes! Bursting with dynamic artwork, down-to-earth explanations of coding principles, and real-life stories of girls and women working at places like Pixar and NASA, this graphically animated book shows what a huge role computer science plays in our lives and how much fun it can be. No matter your interest—sports, the arts, baking, student government, social justice—coding can help you do what you love and make your dreams come true. Whether you’re a girl who’s never coded before, a girl who codes, or a parent raising one, this entertaining book, printed in bold two-color and featuring art on every page, will have you itching to create your own apps, games, and robots to make the world a better place.
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There is so much to love here. The very real personal story of the founder, the examples of great achievements in the past, the short and relatable but real history lessons, the playful introductions to different applications of code. The target audience is middle to high school age girls - I'm not sure they will pick it up unless they are already interested in coding...hiding like it does with the Dewey Decimal System over there by all the other learn to code books. Adults may need to make this book visible and accessible to the kids who most benefit from it - kids who do not think they are good at math or science.
The book invites readers to continue with an interactive book online (at a simple url) and a fiction series. Code newbies who don't understand what the instructors are saying in those bootcamps or youtube videos can pick up the basics in this book - everything from wire framing to D.R.Y. to algorithms.
The ONLY thing that frustrates me about this book is that it is so very overtly for girls - not that it is bad to reach out to this group but because the concepts and true girl power history could be useful for boys and adults, too.
I will keep recommending this book. It is fantastic. If you are interested in code, read it for an easy introduction. If you are already knocking out projects or an active programmer, read it to have a way to talk to other people who are curious about coding.
