Coding Games in Scratch Paperback – June 25, 2024

Found this in the library. It was so great we needed to buy a copy for our home library

My son loved it. It is great for kids learning about programming.

My son in third grade has just started to scratch the surface of some coding. He’s done a class that used Lego and an app. This book was a good next step for him. From his Lego coding class he’s familiar with the concept. I think for this book that helped. Although I do feel like this is a good beginner introduction. The steps are clear and it’s an easy to follow resource. Overall it’s an excellent choice for young learners dipping into digital coding.

I have an 11 year old granddaughter and an 8 year old grandson, so I ordered this book hoping they would work together on coding some games, but the 11 year old wasn't at all interested and the book is too advanced for the 8 year old to do by himself and this Grandma is not at all familiar with coding, so I cannot be of any help with it either. I'll save it for a while and see if his interest piques and get it out again later on.

Ordered this for my two tweenage kids (13 and 14) who are both very interested in scratch and very VERY interested in video games. This book was great at getting them to dig a little deeper behind the tiles/block programing in scratch and really understanding the how and why of what they were piecing togeather.Overall a worthwhile purchase to point their video game passion in a productive direction for once!

I got this book for my 10 year old. He likes to play games so I thought maybe he would like to create one. I also found out that they use Scratch in school. This book was easy to read and follow. It gives out the step by step instructions and was not all complicated. He even created his first game.

I have been working to get my kids interested in coding and stumbled upon this book and thought to give it a try. My kids are bracketed on either side of the recommended age but they both enjoyed it equally.The simplicity of the book and the language let the kids develop games quickly but they then have been able to turn some of them into more complicated and fun games to play.The book provided a good guide for them to put some things into place by themselves, but they did have to rely on me to get over a few roadblocks.Overall, it was a fun book that I hope they can carry forward the lessons into other projects.

The product is merely an incremental update to the previous versions. I am very disappointed. I will keep the book as a reminder not to trust this publisher regarding this specific topic or subject matter.