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Win 2 of the latest Dummies Junior titles
Closing Date: 31st March 2017
Newsletter Subscribers Exclusive*
Following the publication last year of the first of its titles in the ‘Junior’ series, dummies is pleased to announce nine new books which offer a fun and easy introduction to skills and subjects for the scientists, technologists and engineers of the future. Dummies Junior titles are ideal for readers aged seven to eleven.
Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Program Your Raspberry Pi!
introduces young readers to the world of computing with the Raspberry Pi - the small and inexpensive microcomputer. Coding is a valuable skill that will last throughout school and beyond, and this book teaches the basics from getting the board set up, configured, and ready for action, through projects including: creating music with your Pi using Sonic Pi, and making a super cool game by combining Minecraft and Python.
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Creating Digital Animations: Animate Stories with Scratch! walks children with an interest in coding through creating animated characters and scenes using the easy-to-learn Scratch platform - a free web-based multimedia programming tool.
The book guides readers through the four major phases of animation design to create their own interactive stories and games including:
- Creating stick figures as the basis for characters
- Turning stick figures into animated characters
- Creating scenes and background locations
- Adding sound to take their animation to the next level.
Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Program Your Raspberry Pi and Creating Digital Animations are both published by Dummies Junior and retail for £8.99 each.
We are giving away 5 sets of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Program Your Raspberry Pi and Creating Digital Animations. For your chance to win, simply answer the following question:
Raspberry Pi is the small and inexpensive what?
*Winners will only be selected from our subscribers list