Classic children’s books on coding reprogrammed for a new generation
▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/01/usborne-books-teach-children-code-lisa-watts
The books – from Introduction to Computer Programming and Machine Code for Beginners to Write Your Own Adventure Programs for your Microcomputer – provided a generation of children with their first taste of coding. Many of them grew up to be professional software and game developers.
Nearly a quarter of a century on, Watts is now head of digital for Usborne, and is playing an advisory role as the publisher prepares to return to the topic with two books for the children of 2015: Lift-the-Flap Computers and Coding, and Coding for Beginners Using Scratch.