Hello Ruby - Adventures in Coding - Softcover

Linda Liukas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014330898X ISBN 13: 9780143308980

Publisher: Puffin, 2016

Synopsis

Meet Ruby - a small girl with a huge imagination. In Ruby's world, anything is possible if you set your mind to it. As Ruby embarks on her adventure, kids will be introduced through storytelling to the basic concepts of coding. With activities included in every chapter, future kid coders will be thrilled to put their own imaginations to work. 'Code is the twenty-first century literacy, and the need for people to speak the ABCs of programming is imminent. Our world is increasingly run by software, and we need more diversity in the people who are building it.' Linda Liukas ' Linda Liukas wants kids to understand and embrace basic computer logic so that they later formulate code in the same effortless and creative way they build structures with LEGO.' The Wall Street JournalAuthor BiographyLinda is a programmer, storyteller and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland. Her proposed children's book, Hello Ruby, made its debut on Kickstarter and quickly smashed its $10,000 funding goal after just 3.5 hours and gathering 380 000 dollars in total funding. Hello Ruby is the most funded book on Kickstarter's children's book category. Linda is a central figure in the world of programming and has worked on edutech already before it was called that. Linda is the founder of Rails Girls, a global phenomenon teaching the basics of programming for young women all over the world. She previously worked at Codecademy, a programming education company in New York with over 5 million users all over the world, but left to work on the children's book which she believes is one of the best platform to introduce kids to programming. Linda has studied in business, design and engineering in Aalto University and product engineering in Stanford University. She was selected the 2013 Ruby Hero (the most notable prize within the Ruby programming community) and she's the Digital Champion of Finland, appointed by EU commissioner Neelie Kroes. - Hello Ruby - Adventures in Coding by Linda Liukas (Paperback).

Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014330898X
• ISBN 13: 9780143308980
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112