ColorMyCode - Softcover

Smith, Jo Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1733047107 ISBN 13: 9781733047104

Verlag: CyberSmith Publishing, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

ColorMyCode makes it fun to learn JavaScript Programming

What Does ColorMyCode Do?
• Teaches text-based, real-world coding concepts using JavaScript.
• Emphasizes computational thinking and problem solving skills.
• Uses coloring of individual elements of a programming statement to increase comprehension.
• Explores coding fundamentals such as: keywords, variables, data types, operators, sequential statements, interactive input, decision statements and loops.
• Encourages attention to detail.
• Introduces HTML needed to run JavaScript code online.
• Offers hands-on practice using samples of JavaScript programs and opportunities to write programs "from scratch".
• Includes whimsical art to color in addition to coloring code.
• Encourages development of typing skills.

What Makes ColorMyCode Special?
• Uses coloring and visual association to teach beginners - from 3rd graders to adults.
• Offers coloring in the book, online or both!
• Allows for individual study, study with a parent/coach, after-school groups or in a classroom.
• Includes multisensory activities that enhance learning.
• Appeals to visual learners.

Why is Coloring Important?
• A Gallup study found 9 in 10 parents want their children to learn coding.
• The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 24% job growth for programmers through 2026.
• Problem solving skills are transferable to other professions.
• Computational thinking is the new literacy.
• The earlier you learn, the easier it is.

Start Now! It fun!!

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jo Ann Smith has been involved with computational thinking and computer programming for nearly 40 years - as the owner of a computer training company, a professor of computer science, a computer consultant in higher education and an employee of AT&T Bell Labs. She has authored 19 college level computer science text books. Now retired, she has been teaching computer programming to 3rd thru 6th grade students at her local library in Batavia, Illinois. She has been using the coloring techniques used in ColorMyCode and has found the children enthusiastic. She has also found their parents excited - some asking if they could participate. She has an MS in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a BS in Education from the University of Dayton

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CyberSmith Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1733047107
• ISBN 13: 9781733047104
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Holm Elise
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland