My Life as a Coder by Janet Tashjian & Jake Tashjian

Derek is given a present. A laptop! With no internet or games! Best present ever, right? (I think so) The only way Derek can do games on it is if he codes them himself. He enrolls in a coding class taught by his school’s lunch server! When a few catastrophes happen, Derek finds out that he was unknowingly helping. Derek has to frame the mastermind all while pretending to help her.

I liked the places on the sides where there were drawings to explain some of the harder words. I also like what his parents did with the laptop (I wish that my parents did that to me) This is a funny coding adventure and I really liked reading it. I would recommend this book to parents who want their kids to try something new... and to kids who are in probably 3rd grade and up.

Team BFF: race to the finish

#2 in the Girls Who Code series, in this book about Sophie, Lucy, Maya, Erin, and Leila, Sophie is really excited for the hackathon in the community center gym on saturday, but then she finds out that she has to babysit her sisters on the day of the hackathon. Can she find a way to get to the hackathon, or will all of her friends be disqualified? 

I really liked that it was about coding and they had the really fun thing in the end that I can't tell you about because it would be a spoiler. It is an amazing book about coding and I’m really excited about it because I think they were using JavaScript. It is a good book about coding and I would recommend it to blooming coders, but read the first book first. Also, please check out the third book and tell me what you think about it in the comments.

Click’d by Tamara Ireland Stone

Allie, a student in Mercer Middle School, creates an app called Click’d that gets in a competition called Games for Good (G4G, a competition of games that are made to do good in the world). Click’d is a game where users take a test about themselves and are paired up with other users who answered the questions the same way they did and scores them on a leaderboard of 1-10. When Click’d gets a glitch that might expose users’ dirty secrets, Allie has to fix the app before the G4G competition.

I really liked all of the coding talk although I wonder what coding language she was using, I am learning JavaScript right now. I would really like to make a game like Click’d where it is like geocaching but for people, where people will get on the app and it would show them the locations of other people who are playing on the app and they would try to find one of the dots/people and when two people find each other they tap their phones together and they can talk. I do not recommend this book, I demand that you try it out. It is really awesome.

Here is a photo of one of the coding projects I did on khan academy with help,

(It draws a circle and a square at the X and Y position of the mouse and the X and Y position of the mouse also play a part in determining the color)