Reviews
Read the praise for “How to Think Like a Coder: Without Even Trying!”
"If ever an author were thinking outside of the box, this would be it - quite literally."
- Armadillo Magazine
Shortlisted for the ALCS Educational Writer’s Award 2018
The ALCS Educational Writers’ Award celebrates outstanding examples of the best non-fiction that stimulates or enhances learning. Here’s what the judges had to say:
“This step-by-step guide for absolute beginners does exactly what it says on the cover, introducing key concepts in a very straightforward and accessible way. Offering a fine balance between information and fabulous illustrations, this colourful book provides a wonderful, rather substantial taster to a subject on the rise.”
Book Aid International’s ‘Book of the Month’ September 2019
Book Aid International works with the public, community and prison libraries to ensure the books they provide are available to all without discrimination. They also work to increase the support available to people as they begin to read by training librarians and teachers. Copies of “How to Think Like a Coder..” will be distributed to many of their partners with community library networks including the Uganda Community Library Association libraries. Here’s what they had to say:
“This step-by-step guide for absolute beginners does exactly what it says on the cover, introducing key concepts in a very straightforward and accessible way. Offering a fine balance between information and fabulous illustrations, this colourful book provides a wonderful, rather substantial taster to a subject on the rise.”
“It really is a great take on how to teach coding as it lifts up the mirror to our everyday life, and everyday situations and turns them into opportunities to code – the reader has to understand how they work things out often and seemingly without thinking in order to eventually make things happen on a screen. Not a bad purchase at all. If ever an author were thinking outside of the box, this would be it – quite literally.”
“Jim takes us on a whirlwind tour of our own brains, describing the need for both a mathematical and analytical approach to problem solving, but also a fantastic does of creativity to really think around and solve particular coding issues.”
“Packed full of information and lively illustrations featuring fun robot characters who enliven the text throughout. How To Think Like a Coder takes what can be a rather intimidating topic and makes it more accessible and something all the family can share!”
“Programming needs a grasp of the basics – coding – so here’s the ideal start … An excellent book.”
“A complex topic made easier to understand with striking illustrations.”
Great for the classroom
This is a great book for beginners and anyone who thinks code is scary – there’s no need to be!
I have found this book to be really useful especially as a teacher who has taken a lot of the ideas and used it in the classroom as well as events like open evening, options evening/day and in lessons!
The book is laid out quite nice and colourful – not like traditional textbooks – it’s a lovely introduction to computing/coding.
Jim Christian
Jim Christian is a renowned author with a passion for making complex concepts accessible to everyone. With his books, Jim has established himself as an expert in teaching coding concepts to beginners.