Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

Jeff Lawson, software developer turned CEO of Twilio, shares a new approach for winning in the digital era: unleash the creativity and productivity of the 25 million most important workers in the digital economy, software developers. From banking and retail to insurance and finance, every industry is turning digital, and every company needs the best software to win the hearts and minds of customers. The landscape has shifted from the classic build vs. buy question, to one of build vs. die. Companies have to get this right to survive. But how do they make this transition? Software developers are sought after, highly paid, and desperately needed to compete in the modern, digital economy. Yet most companies treat them like digital factory workers without really understanding what software developers are able to contribute. Lawson argues that developers are the creative workforce who can solve major business problems and create hit products for customers--not just grind through rote tasks. Lawson talks to executives, developers at startups, and founders who code to learn how forward-thinking companies embrace this approach. From Google and Amazon, to one-person online software companies--companies that bring software developers in as partners are winning. Adopting the Ask Your Developer mindset enables companies to take advantage of an underutilized asset, unleash tremendous untapped creativity and brainpower inside their software teams, recruit and retain the best talent, and integrate developers into everyday decisions. For developers, this mindset can help you show up and be viewed as a full, talented, creative professional - not a code monkey. How to compete in the digital economy? In short: Ask Your Developer.

Ask Your Developer

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#technology #engineering #tech #hardcover #coding

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

"Portions of this book first appeared The New York Times magazine and Wired"--Title page verso.

Coders

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Book has some cover wear, else it is clean, tight and is in very good condition. Lots of puzzles for kids to figure out. #puzzle #hardcover #math #coding

Washington

multidimensional codes, illusions, numbers, and brainteasers

Puzzle power!

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#hardcover #nonfiction #coding #girlswhocode

Texas

Ideas and Inspiration for Coding

Provides guidance on coming up with ideas for coding through information, activities, and journal entries.

Code It! Create It!

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#paperback #kidsnonfiction #coding #computer #games #kids #gaming #visualguide #scratch 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

A Step-By-Step Visual Guide to Building Your Own Computer Games

Everyone can be a computer whiz with the ultimate beginner's guide to coding. 

This visual reference book is the perfect introduction to computer programming, with all you need to create single and multiplayer computer games, platformers, mazes, brainteasers, races, and much more. 

The complexities of coding become clear and simple by following the numbered steps to build eight fantastic games using the Scratch programming language. Essential coding and computer science concepts are explained along the way as you build, test, and customize your new games. 

This essential guide supports STEM education goals by helping you plan and design projects, test and improve prototypes, communicate ideas and think creatively - all while creating games to enjoy playing with friends and family. 

As long as you have a desktop or laptop computer and an internet connection to download Scratch, you're ready to go! 

What are you waiting for? Let the games begin...

Coding Games in Scratch

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Linda Liukas

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

South Carolina

Computer Science

"Hello Ruby is half picture book and half activity book rolled into one adorable package. It introduces programming without requiring a computer at all. The point of the book isn't to teach you a programming language, but programming concepts." --GeekMom.com

Meet Ruby--a small girl with a huge imagination, and the determination to solve any puzzle. As Ruby stomps around her world making new friends, including the Wise Snow Leopard, the Friendly Foxes, and the Messy Robots, kids will be introduced to the fundamentals of computational thinking, like how to break big problems into small ones, create step-by-step plans, look for patterns and think outside the box through storytelling. Then, these basic concepts at the core of coding and programming will be reinforced through fun playful exercises and activities that encourage exploration and creativity.

In Ruby's world anything is possible if you put your mind to it.

Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding

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#paperback #programming #coding #codingforkids Some water damage on the front and back of the book. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Georgia

Coding For Kids in easy steps will teach the reader:

 * how to create web pages using HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
 * how to add style to web pages using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
 * how to make interactive web pages using JavaScript programming

Coding For Kids in easy steps has an easy-to-follow style that demonstrates coding for web pages in clear examples. It begins by explaining how to make and test a basic web page, then demonstrates how to add text, pictures, links, tables, lists, and buttons to a web page. Next, the reader learns how to specify content color, font, position, and visibility. The book then shows how to add functionality so that web pages can react to user actions. The final chapter brings everything together with a step-by-step example that builds a fun web page containing an interactive game for PC, tablet, or smartphone.

Coding For Kids in easy steps assumes the reader has no previous coding experience so is ideal for the newcomer to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript technologies.

Coding for Kids in Easy Steps

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Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done





Sophie Houser and Andrea "Andy" Gonzales met in 2014 at Girls Who Code summer camp. United in their outrage over how our culture makes women feel shame about their bodies and periods, they created an empowering video game called Tampon Run. Sophie and Andy uploaded the game, and by the next day it had gone viral. They were thrown into the limelight of the press, the public, and the tech world. They were covered by Teen Vogue, Seventeen, MTV, Cosmopolitan, Time, CNN, and scores of other media outlets.



Now, for the first time, Sophie and Andy share what they've learned--about both coding and the tech industry--to inspire girls who are still discouraged from entering STEM fields. They teach readers the fundamentals of coding and share their own tips. And most importantly, with frankness and humor, Sophie and Andy tell all about how they came to love coding, their realizations on the importance of STEM, and the exclusive conversations they've had with big players in tech. Sophie and Andy break down how more girls can follow in their footsteps--or create their own. 



And go ahead and check out Tampon Run for yourself! www.tamponrun.com [http://www.tamponrun.com]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Girl Code (ARC)

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New Jersey

Build with Code

Children will learn everything--from creating a game world to animating characters to determining the physics of movement within the game. Each concept is illustrated with a screenshot to make checking easy, and incredible pixel art from Army of Trolls makes this look like no other coding book.



Coder Dojo Nano: Make Your Own Game is the perfect first step that kids can take toward game development.



Look out for other titles in the CoderDojo Nano series: CoderDojo Nano: Build Your Own Website

CoderDojo Nano - Make Your Own Game

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This book has yellowing pages and a not unpleasant odor of perfume. #hardcover #coding #computing #math #nonfiction #Godel #Turing #logic #math

New York

The Idea That Rules the World

The algorithm is just code, but it makes things happen. It's the set of abstract, detailed instructions that makes computers run. Any programmer can invent a new algorithm-and many have become millionaires doing just that. Computers, the Internet, virtual reality-our world is being transformed before our eyes, all because some quirky logicians and mathematicians followed the dream of ultimate abstraction and invented the algorithm. Beginning with Leibniz and culminating in the middle of this century with the work of little-known geniuses and eccentrics like Gödel and Turing, David Berlinski tells this epic tale with clarity and imaginative brilliance. You don't have to be a programmer or a math buff to enjoy his book. All you have to do is be fascinated by the greatest innovation of the twentieth century.


The Advent of the Algorithm

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Kim van Alkemade

Virginia

A Novel

New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8, Kim van Alkemade returns with a gripping and poignant historical saga in which an unmarried college student who's given up her baby for adoption helps a Dutch Holocaust survivor search for his lost mother. 1960, New York City: College student Rita Klein is a pioneering woman in the new field of computer programming--until she unexpectedly becomes pregnant. At the Hudson Home for Unwed Mothers, social workers pressure her into surrendering her baby for adoption. Rita is struggling to get on with her life when she meets Jacob Nassy, a charming yet troubled man from the Netherlands who is traumatized by his childhood experience of being separated from his mother during the Holocaust. When Rita learns that Hitler's Final Solution was organized using Hollerith punch-card computers, she sets out to find the answers that will help Jacob heal. 1941, The Hague: Cornelia Vogel is working as a punch-card operator at the Ministry of Information when a census of Holland's population is ordered by the Germans. After the Ministry acquires a Hollerith computer made in America, Cornelia is tasked with translating its instructions from English into Dutch. She seeks help from her fascinating Jewish neighbor, Leah Blom, an unconventional young woman whose mother was born in New York. When Cornelia learns the census is being used to persecute Holland's Jews, she risks everything to help Leah escape. After Rita uncovers a connection between Cornelia Vogel and Jacob's mother, long-buried secrets come to light. Will shocking revelations tear them apart, or will learning the truth about the past enable Rita and Jacob to face the future together?

Counting Lost Stars

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Sarah Hutt

Wyoming

Ohio

Spotlight on Coding Club! #4

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#hardcover #girlswhocode #stem #coding
Book # 1 - The Friendship Code
Book # 2 - Team BFF: Race to the Finish!

Pennsylvania

Girls Who Code # 1 & 2

#hardcover #childrens #coding #educational #kids #stem #computerscience 

Slight edge wear. #paperback #girlswhocode #coding #educational #computers #reshmasaujani #technology #childrens #homeschool

Girls Who Code

Rhode Island

Joseph Albahari

Ben Albahari

bought it for work when I was a coder at BofA. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Definitive Reference

When you have a question about C# 5.0 or the .NET CLR, this bestselling guide has precisely the answers you need. Uniquely organized around concepts and use cases, this updated fifth edition features a reorganized section on concurrency, threading, and parallel programming--including in-depth coverage of C# 5.0's new asynchronous functions.

Shaped by more than 20 expert reviewers, including Microsoft's Eric Lippert, Stephen Toub, Chris Burrows, and Jon Skeet, this book has all you need to stay on track with C# 5.0. It's widely known as the definitive reference on the language.

 * Get up to speed on C# language basics, including syntax, types, and variables
 * Explore advanced topics such as unsafe code and type variance
 * Dig deep into LINQ via three chapters dedicated to the topic
 * Learn about code contracts, dynamic programming, and parallel programming
 * Work with .NET features, including reflection, assemblies, memory management, security, I/O, XML, collections, networking, and native interoperability

"C# 5.0 in a Nutshell is one of the few books I keep on my desk as a quick reference."



--Scott Guthrie, Microsoft

"Whether you're a novice programmer or an expert who wants to improve your knowledge of modern asynchronous programming techniques, this book has the information you need to get the job done in C#."



--Eric Lippert, Microsoft

C# 5. 0 in a Nutshell

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Minnesota

Welcome to Code Like a Girl, where you'll get started on the adventure of coding with cool projects and step-by-step tips, from the co-author of the bestselling The Daring Book for Girls. Coding is about creativity, self-expression, and telling your story. It's solving problems and being curious, building things, making the world a better place, and creating a future. It's about you: whoever you are, wherever you're at, whatever you want. Nearly everything you encounter on a screen is made from code. You see, with code you can have an idea and put it into action: it's your voice and your vision. From the outside, tech and code may seem puzzling and mysterious, but when you get through the door and past the first few beginner steps and your code starts to work, it feels like magic. In this book, you'll learn how to: - Code with Scratch--projects like making a dog walk through the park, sending your friend a card, and devising a full-scoring game! - Build your own computer--really! - Create your own digital fortune-teller, with the Python language. - Make your own smartphone gloves. - Make light-up bracelets. - Code a motion sensor that tells you when someone enters your room. - And lots more!

Code Like a Girl: Rad Tech Projects and Practical Tips

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#paperback #computers #computing #coding #programming #visualbasic #vb #vba 

This book is in good condition with no wear or breaks in the binding. The cover is detached from the binding (see photos) to make it easier to open flat. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers have a couple small bumps around the edges but no scuffs or tears. Price sticker on back cover. Printed in 1998, 633 pp.

The Language

The online documentation of VB/VBA language components seems to follow the 80/20 rule: the basic facts that you need to use a language statement are provided in the documentation. But the additional 20 percent that you need to use it effectively or to apply it to special cases is conspicuously absent. To a professional VB/VBA programmer, though, this missing 20 percent of the language's documentation isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. And inVB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Language, it finally is available.The bulk of the book consists of an alphabetical reference to the statements, procedures, and functions of the VB/VBA language. Each entry has a standardized listing containing the following information:

 * Its syntax, using standard code conventions
 * Differences in the operation of the keyword in a macro environment (e.g., in Office) and in Visual Basic, if there are any
 * A list of arguments accepted by the function or procedure, if any
 * A description of the data type returned by a function
 * The finer points of a keyword's usage that are often omitted from or blurred over by the documentation
 * Tips and gotchas that include undocumented behaviors and practical applications for particular language elements -- a section particularly invaluable for diagnosing or avoiding potential programming problems
 * A brief, nonobvious example that illustrates the use of the keyword

Also included in VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Language is a brief overview of the VB/VBA language, including:
 * Basic VBA programming concepts, such as its data types and its support for variables, constants, and arrays
 * Error handling in VBA applications
 * Object programming with VBA
 * Using VBA with particular applications. Excel and Project are utilized to show how to work with an application's integrated development environment and to take advantage of its object model Regardless of how much experience you have programming with VBA, this is the book you'll pick up time and time again both as your standard reference guide and as a tool for troubleshooting and identifying programming problems.

VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Language is the definitive reference for Visual Basic and VBA developers.

VB and VBA in a Nutshell

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A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology

In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling--to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another.

LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD * "A vivid coming-of-age story and a call to each of us to be more mindful and compassionate when we interact online."--Arianna Huffington

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PARADE

Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim woman in charge in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and male. Growing up in Egypt and Kuwait, el Kaliouby was raised by a strict father who valued tradition--yet also had high expectations for his daughters--and a mother who was one of the first female computer programmers in the Middle East. Even before el Kaliouby broke ground as a scientist, she broke the rules of what it meant to be an obedient daughter and, later, an obedient wife to pursue her own daring dream.

After earning her PhD at Cambridge, el Kaliouby, now the divorced mother of two, moved to America to pursue her mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us. The majority of our communication is conveyed through nonverbal cues: facial expressions, tone of voice, body language. But that communication is lost when we interact with others through our smartphones and devices. The result is an emotion-blind digital universe that impairs the very intelligence and capabilities--including empathy--that distinguish human beings from our machines.

To combat our fundamental loss of emotional intelligence online, she cofounded Affectiva, the pioneer in the new field of Emotion AI, allowing our technology to understand humans the way we understand one another. Girl Decoded chronicles el Kaliouby's journey from being a "nice Egyptian girl" to becoming a woman, carving her own path as she revolutionizes technology. But decoding herself--learning to express and act on her own emotions--would prove to be the biggest challenge of all.

Girl Decoded

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Perfect for fans of The Babysitters Club and anyone interested in computer science, this book by New York Times bestselling author Stacia Deustch is published in partnership with the organization Girls Who Code!

Sophia and her coding club BFFs have the best time together. Sure, they work on coding projects, but mostly they gossip about crushes, eat cookies, and do totally silly impersonations. Now they’re about to participate in their first hackathon--a full day of coding and meeting other coders—so it’s time to step up their game!
 
Just when Sophia and her friends think their hackathon project is ready for the big time, a change of plans threatens to tear their group apart. Will they have each other’s backs, or are they destined for an epic fail? They know that coding is all about teamwork and problem-solving—maybe friendship is, too!

Massachusetts

After signing up for a "hackathon" day of coding, Sophia and her coding club friends welcome a robotics expert into their group, but find their teamwork challenged by conflicting opinions.

Team BFF: Race to the Finish!

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Carol Vorderman

Craig is a computer scientist, educator, and creative technologist, who helps people develop digital skills in a fun and creative environment. His company, Digital Skills Education, develops and delivers exciting projects across Scotland and internationally. He writes books that bring digital skills to life, for people of all ages and abilities. He also delivers hands-on digital skills workshops to thousands of people around the world

A unique step-by-step visual guide, from binary code to building games

Python programming and Scratch are a doddle to learn with this easy and colourful guide to coding for kids. Just follow the simple steps and you'll be writing programs in no time. With more than 250,000 copies sold worldwide, Computer Coding for Kids is perfect for beginners of all ages. It starts with the Scratch programming language. Simple examples get readers up to speed quickly, explaining not only how Scratch works but also introducing universal coding concepts, such as loops, variables, strings, and Boolean logic. The Scratch section includes several longer, worked examples of games that readers can build in minutes by following the simple numbered steps. The second part of the book covers the Python language, building on the principles learned in Scratch. This section is ideal for readers who've mastered Scratch and are eager for new challenges. The Python section includes several longer, step-by-step projects that allow readers to build and adapt their own games. Computer Coding for Kids is equally well suited to children who are new to programming and to those who are already interested and hungry to learn more.

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Ask Your Developer

Clive Thompson

Coders

David Hawcock

Puzzle power!

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Code It! Create It!

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Coding Games in Scratch

Linda Liukas

Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding

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Coding for Kids in Easy Steps

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Girl Code (ARC)

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The Advent of the Algorithm

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Girls Who Code

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C# 5. 0 in a Nutshell

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Counting Lost Stars

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Girl Decoded

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Team BFF: Race to the Finish!

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