Teach Your Kids to Code

Teach Your Kids to Code is a parent's and teacher's guide to teaching kids basic programming and problem solving using Python, the powerful language used in college courses and by tech companies like Google and IBM.

Step-by-step explanations will have kids learning computational thinking right away, while visual and game-oriented examples hold their attention. Friendly introductions to fundamental programming concepts such as variables, loops, and functions will help even the youngest programmers build the skills they need to make their own cool games and applications.

Whether you've been coding for years or have never programmed anything at all, Teach Your Kids to Code will help you show your young programmer how to:

• Explore geometry by drawing colorful shapes with Turtle graphics
• Write programs to encode and decode messages, play Rock-Paper-Scissors, and calculate how tall someone is in Ping-Pong balls
• Create fun, playable games like War, Yahtzee, and Pong
• Add interactivity, animation, and sound to their apps

Teach Your Kids to Code is the perfect companion to any introductory programming class or after-school meet-up, or simply your educational efforts at home. Spend some fun, productive afternoons at the computer with your kids—you can all learn something!

About the Author

Bryson Payne has a Ph.D. in computer science and is a leading cybersecurity expert. He is the Director of the Center for Cyber Operations Education at UNG, the Director of the National Cyber Warrior Academy (an NSA-funded GenCyber summer camp), an NSA CAE Peer Reviewer, an FBI InfraGard member, and a TEDx speaker on "How to Teach Kids to Code". His certifications include: SANS/GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN) - only 7,808 certified worldwide, BlackHat Adversary Tactics: Red Team Operations (AT:RTO), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®), and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). His first book, Teach Your Kids to Code, has sold over 50,000 copies, is published in six languages and his online courses, "Teach Your Kids to Code", "Learn Java the Easy Way", and "Real World Ethical Hacking" on Udemy have over 30,000 students enrolled. Bryson speaks English, Spanish, French, Russian and Mandarin Chinese. He resides in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and two sons.