Discover how everyday tech works while developing your coding skills with Create the Code!

Each title in this series explains the key computer code and systems that are used to create and control the tech you use everyday, such as the Internet, your smartphone, music and video, and computer graphics. Then, step-by-step activities teach you how to create your own versions on screen with code helping you to become a coding whiz. With Create the Code: Sound and Video, older children, with the help of a parent, will learn to digitize sound, create a simple music sequencer, code sound effects, embed videos into web pages, and much more!

Discover how your everyday tech works while developing your coding skills!

Computer graphics are everywhere! From the icons and buttons you tap to open and navigate apps to the impressive special effects in movies, these are created by computers and more or less complex code. Let's take a look inside how these work and learn to code our own in Create the Code: Computer Graphics. Using Scratch and HTML, you'll create a simple drawing app, code an explosion and even make a 3D model of the Solar System.

Each book in the Create the Code series explains the key computer code and systems that are used to create and control the tech you use everyday such as the Internet, your smartphone, music and films and your apps. Step-by-step activities teach you how to create your own versions on screen with code

The series uses Scratch, HTML and MIT's App Inventor as the coding languages

Author Max Wainewright is a leading authority on teaching kids to code.

Perfect for coders aged 9 and up.


Create the Code: The Internet

by Max Wainewright

Published 12 November 2020

Discover how your everyday tech works while developing your coding skills!

The Internet is everywhere, and on it are millions of websites! But how do they work, what's inside them and how are the apps we rely on so much created and designed? These are the topics explored in Create the Code: The Internet. Using Scratch and HTML, you'll create a different types of web pages, a simple game and even your own search engine.

Each book in the Create the Code series explains the key computer code and systems that are used to create and control the tech you use everyday such as the Internet, your smartphone, music and films and your apps. Step-by-step activities teach you how to create your own versions on screen with code

The series uses Scratch, HTML and MIT's App Inventor as the coding languages.

Author Max Wainewright is a leading authority on teaching kids to code.

Perfect for coders aged 9 and up.


Create the Code: Smartphones

by Max Wainewright

Published 10 September 2020

Discover how your everyday tech works while developing your coding skills!

Smartphones have become an extension of ourselves. We couldn't live without them. But how do they work? What's inside them and how are the apps we rely on so much created and designed? These are the topics explored in Create the Code: Smartphones. You'll also learn to code your own apps using Scratch and MIT's App Inventor: create emojis, code a web browser and make your own selfie filter app! Best of all : you'll get to test them on your own smartphone!

Each book explains the key computer code and systems that are used to create and control the tech you use everyday such as the Internet, your smartphone, music and films and your apps. Step-by-step activities teach you how to create your own versions on screen with code

The series uses Scratch, HTML and MIT's App Inventor as the coding languages

Author Max Wainewright is a leading authority on teaching kids to code.

Perfect for coders aged 9 and up.