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Train Your Brain: Think Like a Coder

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Train Your Brain: Think Like a Coder by Alex Woolf is a captivating children's book that introduces young readers to the principles of coding through engaging challenges and brain teasers. It encourages logical thinking and problem-solving, using playful scenarios to make learning both fun and rewarding. Perfect for budding coders, it's an excellent introduction to the fascinating world of coding.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy solving puzzles and thinking logically, as it offers a fun way for children to develop coding and problem-solving skills through engaging activities and exercises. Suitable for young readers with a curiosity for technology, it helps boost critical thinking in a playful, accessible manner.

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Get ahead in popular S.T.E.A.M. careers by learning to think like the experts and developing a growth mindset

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Help your child to develop their growth mindset as they discover how real computer coders look at the world and how they think.

Children's brains are powerful and flexible, but they need exercising and challenging to develop. In this book they will uncover the core skills that can make a good coder great, and be encouraged to have a go at some simple activities to help them to train their brain to become better at applying outstanding coding practice.

By uncovering the way that real coders look at the world and approach problems logically, they will be learning skills that will set them in good stead for life. Each topic is broken down into manageable chunks, so the reader can build up their skills and naturally develop their thinking.

Each book contains biographies of four top coders or computing experts, and the humorous illustrations throughout help the reader to understand some of the trickier concepts.

Ideal for students aged 8+ who are studying coding or S.T.E.A.M. topics at key stage 2.

Titles in this series:

Think Like An Astronaut

Think Like An Artist

Think Like a Coder

Think Like An Engineer

Think Like A Mathematician

Think Like A Scientist

Series: Train Your Brain

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  • Train Your Brain: Think Like a Coder
    Help your child to develop their growth mindset as they discover how real computer coders look at the world and how they think. Children's brains are powerful and flexible, but they need exercising and challenging to develop. In this book they will uncover the core skills that can make a good coder great, and be encouraged to have a go...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526316516

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 February 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wayland

Edition: Illustrated edition

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by David Broadbent

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 264.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 48

About the Author

Alex Woolf (Author)

Alex Woolf has written more than 150 books, both fiction and non-fiction, mostly for children. Many of these have sold around the world and his words have been translated into over a dozen different languages. He has written on a huge range of subjects including Romans, chocolate, asteroids, sharks, Tudors, flying reptiles, soap, bees and acne. In 2019, he won a Fiction Express award for his story, Mystery at Moon Base One. Alex lives in North London with his family and two cats, Juno and Minerva.

David Broadbent (Illustrator)

David Broadbent has been an illustrator for many a long year, he has created illustrations for different companies and people all over this planet of ours and would like to keep doing so. Books are his favourite thing to work on and he has created artwork for titles such as Do Nice be Kind Spread Happy, Be the Change, Make it Happen and The Camper Van Bible. He lives on the south coast of England with his family, including a strange dog and a three legged hamster.

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