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PYTHON FOR KIDS
Jason Briggs manages to successfully describe programming to kids without sounding like hes dumbing down the content. The lessons are well-constructed and leave the reader with a feeling of accomplishment in each chapter.
Marziah Karch, Wired.com
An excellent introduction to programming for anyone interested in learning to program, regardless of their age. The material is extremely well organized and presented, and makes for a great resource for either home or school.
Roy Wood, GeekDad
This book offers a good introduction to computer programming.... An excellent family bonding experience.
Patrice Gans, Education Week
By the end of the book, you have a fully-functional platform game running, and most likely a head full of ideas about your next game. Python for Kids is just as good an introduction for adults learning to code.
Matthew Humphries, Geek.com
Easy to read, provides sound programming advice and very clear explanations of how programming languages work. A great book for anyone who wants to break into programming without pangs of inadequacy.
Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld
PYTHON FOR KIDS. Copyright 2013 by Jason R. Briggs.
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher.
Printed in Korea
Fourth printing
16 15 14 13 4 5 6 7 8 9
ISBN-10: 1-59327-407-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-407-8
Publisher: William Pollock
Production Editor: Serena Yang
Cover and Interior Design: Octopod Studios
Illustrator: Miran Lipovaca
Developmental Editor: William Pollock
Technical Reviewers: Josh Pollock and Maria Fernandez
Copyeditor: Marilyn Smith
Compositor: Serena Yang
Proofreader: Greg Teague
For information on book distributors or translations, please contact No Starch Press, Inc. directly:
No Starch Press, Inc.
245 8th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Briggs, Jason R.
Python for kids : a playful introduction to programming / by Jason R. Briggs.
pages cm
Audience: 10+
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-59327-407-8 ISBN 1-59327-407-6
1. Computer softwareJuvenile literature. 2. Computer programmingJuvenile literature. 3. Python (Computer program language)Juvenile literature. I. Title.
QA76.52.B75 2013
005.133dc23
2012044047
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The information in this book is distributed on an As Is basis, without warranty. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author nor No Starch Press, Inc. shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in it.
Production Date: September 26, 2013
Plant & Location: Printed by We SP, South Korea
Job / Batch #: 072313
Jason R. Briggs has been a programmer since the age of eight, when he first learned BASIC on a Radio Shack TRS-80. He has written software professionally as a developer and systems architect and served as Contributing Editor for Java Developers Journal. His articles have appeared in JavaWorld, ONJava, and ONLamp. Python for Kids is his first book.
Jason can be reached at .
Miran Lipovaa is the author of Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!. He enjoys boxing, playing bass guitar, and, of course, drawing. He has a fascination with dancing skeletons and the number 71, and when he walks through automatic doors he pretends that hes actually opening them with his mind.
A recent graduate of The Nueva School, 15-year-old Josh Pollock is a freshman at Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco. He first started programming in Scratch when he was 9 years old, began using TI-BASIC when he was in 6th grade, and moved on to Java and Python in 7th and UnityScript in 8th. In addition to programming, he loves playing the trumpet, developing computer games, and teaching people about interesting STEM topics.
Maria Fernandez has a masters degree in applied linguistics and has been interested in computers and technology for more than 20 years. She taught English to young refugee women with the Global Village Project in Georgia and currently resides in northern California working with ETS (Educational Testing Service).
This must be what its like when you get up on stage to accept an award, only to realize youve left the list of people you have to thank in your other trousers: Youre guaranteed to forget someone, and that music will soon start rolling to quickly usher you off the stage.
So that being said, heres the (no doubt) incomplete list of people to whom I owe a huge debt of gratitude for helping make this book as good as I think it now is.
Thanks to the No Starch team, particularly Bill Pollock, for applying a liberal dose of what-would-a-kid-think while editing it. When youve been programming for a long time, its all too easy to forget how difficult some of this stuff is for learners, and Bill was invaluable at pointing out those oft-overlooked, over-complicated parts. And thanks to Serena Yang, production manager extraordinaire; heres hoping you havent torn out too much hair getting 300+ pages of code correctly colorized.
A big thank you must go to Miran Lipovaca for utterly brilliant illustrations. Beyond brilliant. No really! If I had done the artwork, wed be lucky to have the occasional smudged figure that doesnt resemble anything in particular. Is it a bear... ? Is it a dog... ? No, wait... is that supposed to be a tree?
Thanks to the reviewers. I apologize if some of your suggestions werent implemented in the end. You were probably right, and I can only blame a personal character flaw for any probable goofs. Particular thanks to Josh for some great suggestions and some really good catches. And apologies to Maria for having to deal with occasionally dodgily formatted code.
Thanks to my wife and daughter, for putting up with a husband and father who had his nose buried in a computer screen even more than usual.
To Mum, for endless amounts of encouragement over the years.
Finally, thanks to my father, for buying a computer back in the 1970s and putting up with someone who wanted to use it as much as he did. None of this would have been possible without him.
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