A book for anyone teaching computer science from elementary school teachers and coding club
coaches to parents looking for some guidance. Computer science opens more doors for today's
youth than any other discipline - which is why Coding in the Classroom is your key to unlocking
students' future potential. Author Ryan Somma untangles the current state of CS education
standards describes the cognitive academic and professional benefits of learning CS and
provides numerous strategies to promote computational thinking and get kids coding! Whether
you're a teacher an after-school coach or a parent seeking accessible ways to boost your
kid's computer savvy Coding in the Classroom is here to help. With quick-start programming
strategies scaffolded exercises for every grade level and ideas for designing CS events that
promote student achievement this book is a rock-solid roadmap to CS integration from a wide
variety of on-ramps. You'll learn: tips and resources for teaching programming concepts via
in-class activities and games without a computer development environments that make coding and
sharing web apps a breeze lesson plans for the software lifecycle process and techniques for
facilitating long-term projects ways to craft interdisciplinary units that bridge CS and
computational thinking with other content areas Coding in the Classroom does more than make CS
less formidable - it makes it more fun! From learning computational thinking via board games to
building their own websites students are offered a variety of entry points for acquiring the
skills they need to succeed in the 21st-century workforce. Moreover Somma understands how
schools operate - and he's got your back. You'll be empowered to advocate for the value of
implementing CS across the curriculum get stakeholder buy-in and build the supportive
equitable coding community that your school deserves.
