Small Basic, created by Microsoft to inspire kids to learn to program, is a free modern language that makes coding simple and fun. This book from Majed Marji and Ed Price sets out to bring code to life and introduces you to the empowering world of programming with hands-on projects intended to challenge and inspire you. 

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You'll master the basics with simple activities like displaying messages and drawing colorful pictures, and work your way up to programming playable games! You'll learn how to:

• Store and manipulate data with variables
• Process user input to make interactive programs
• Use if/else statements to make decisions
• Create loops to automate repetitive code
• Break up long programs into bite-sized subroutines

You'll command a turtle to draw shapes, program magical moving text, solve all kinds of math problems, help a knight slay a fearsome dragon, and more! Each chapter ends with extra practice examples so you can take your programming skills to the next level!

Author: Majed Marji and Ed Price
Publisher: No Starch Press
Date: May 2, 2016
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9781593277024
Print: 1593277024
Kindle: B01EIPPPIE

Age level: 10 -99

Learn to Program with Scratch, also authored by Majed Marji was one of our Best Books Of 2014, with a 5-star rating and shares the subtitle An Introduction to Programming with Games, Art, Science, and Math . See Lucy Black's full review.

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