Title: Creative Coding in Python Pdf 30
Author: Sheena Vaidyanathan
Published Date: 2018-12-18
Page: 144
Sheena Vaidyanathan teaches a Python-based computer science class to 11- to 13-year-olds and is the Computer Science Integration Specialist in the Los Altos School District, in Los Altos, California, where she has also designed computer science curricula, conducted professional development for the K–8 STEM program, and taught pre-algebra, digital design, and visual art. Vaidyanathan is also the program director for the computer science professional development programs at Krause Center for Innovation, Foothill College, where she teaches teachers to code in Python, Scratch, and other languages. Over the years, hundreds of students and teachers have learned to code in her classes. She shares her many years of experience teaching coding by writing articles, presenting at conferences, and providing best practices and student work on her personal website, computersforcreativity.com. Prior to teaching, Vaidyanathan worked in Silicon Valley for more than 10 years as a computer scientist and technology entrepreneur. She lives in Los Altos, California.
Creative Coding in Python teaches the fundamentals of computer programming and demonstrates how to code 30+ fun, creative projects using Python, a free, intuitive, open-source programming language that's one of the top five most popular worldwide and one of the most popular Google search terms in the U.S.
Computer science educator Sheena Vaidyanathan helps kids understand the fundamental ideas of computer programming and the process of computational thinking using illustrations, flowcharts, and pseudocode, then shows how to apply those essentials to code exciting projects in Python:
- Chatbots: Discover variables, strings, integers, and more to design conversational programs.
- Geometric art: Use turtle graphics to create original masterpieces.
- Interactive fiction: Explore booleans and conditionals to invent "create your own adventure" games.
- Dice games: Reuse code to devise games of chance.
- Arcade games and apps: Understand GUI (graphical user interfaces) and create your own arcade games and apps.
- What’s next? Look at exciting ways to use your powerful new skills and expand your knowledge of coding in Python.
Terrible value and too expensive for 130 pages The other positive reviews are astounding and it's obvious people haven't seen other "Python for Kids" books on the market. Compared to all the others, even much older titles, this book is sparse and lacking in substance. Please don't waste your money on this title and buy another one such as "Coding Games in Python" (for a similar level of graphic design and cuteness) or something like "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python", now in its 4th edition and with a level of depth about 10X higher than this "Creative Coding" title.First, the good about this book: the illustrations are sharp and the author goes through a checklist to give an introduction to most of the key coding concepts. It's just a "check the box, yup, I covered that topic" treatment, though, and there's ZERO depth. Check out the attached images that show the sections on Loops and Lists.Second, the bad:--Too much filler (out of 130 pages, there are 10 pages of section headers, another 20 where there's barely any text, only screenshots, and overall waaaay too much white space on each page). You could read all the actual words in this book in less than an hour.--Too little depth; no one could use this book successfully to teach cosing because if you don't know Python, you're not going to be able to help your child with just this book. If you *do* know Python already, you'll have to supplement so much that you might as well just make up your own course or use another book.BETTER ALTERNATIVES:I've gotten quite a collection of Python books over the years to teach my 4 kids. I've even done book reviews at my Learn Richly blog and I bought two recent books (this "Creative Coding" one and "Coding Games in Python") to freshen up my collection and compare the older books I have to these new titles.So, given all that, here are the better options:GRAPHICALLY RICH: "Coding games in Python" has the same level of beautiful color art as "Creative Coding in Python" but has 210 pages instead of 130 and then puts 2X the information on each page. It gives TONS of coding examples and then tells you what each piece of code does. It's by FAR better than "Creative Coding". It was just published in late 2018.DEEP AND USEFUL:While not as colorful as the two recent books, there are two older titles I highly recommend if you actually want your child to lear Python:"Teach Your Kids to Code" by Dr. Bryson PayneOR"Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" by Al SweigartEither of the above will help kids or beginner adults to actually learn the theory and practical use of Python.Python Coding That Will Stick As a computer science teacher, I have found that many of the coding books available for tweens and teens do not lead to long term learning of a programming language. These books typically have lots and lots of code that the reader uses to create projects, but the reader is often not learning the concepts behind the code and they are not able to transfer anything they have done to a new programming project.Creative Coding in Python is the answer to this problem and a fun and engaging way to learn to program in Python.Each chapter of Creative Coding in Python allows the reader to create a programming project like a chatbot or geometric art or interactive fiction or a game. The Big Ideas in each chapter provide foundational knowledge about programming concepts like variables, loops, lists, conditionals, functions, and more with short explanatory text and code that readers can try themselves. In addition to the explanatory text and code examples, readers are also presented with flowcharts or pseudocode of what they will be creating. This helps readers to build the good programming habits of thinking about the project they are creating and planning before programming. Once the Big Ideas are introduced, readers then create the main project for the chapter. While code is provided for the basic project, readers are also asked to improve the basic project in some way. Each chapter also has an Experiment and Extend section with more programming project ideas that can be created with the knowledge from the Big Ideas. Completing the projects in this section of each chapter reinforces the learning and provides the needed transfer of the concepts to new programming challenges.Parents: If you are looking for a book for your budding programmer who wants to truly learn an industry standard language, this would be a great book for your child. By reading, understanding, and completing the programming projects, your child will have a solid foundational knowledge of Python and some creative programming projects to show off, as well.Teachers: Do you have students that are ready to move on to text-based programming but the rest of your class isn’t ready yet? Creative Coding in Python would be a great addition to your classroom for those students. It is the latest addition to my classroom library. Beyond adding the book to your classroom library, this book and the companion website could be a great primer for you, as a teacher, if you would like to teach an introductory Python class to your students.
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