Beschreibung
From the creators of Scratch comes ScratchJr, a programming language designed for young children (ages 5-7). The Official ScratchJr Book is the perfect addition to the free app and makes coding and computer science easy and fun for all ages! In The Official ScratchJr Book, kids learn by playing with programming blocks and building their own animated collages, interactive stories, and playable games. Thirty stepbystep activities help kids develop computational thinking, problemsolving, and design skills. Each chapter has several smaller activities that build on one other, culminating with a fun, final project. By the end of the book kids and parents will be ready for all sorts of new programming adventures.
Autorenportrait
Marina Umaschi Bers is a professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of 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 skills without screens. 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.
