Code Your Own Games!: 20 Games to Create with Scratch

My 8 year old loves this and has easily managed to work through the chapters. He has even been thinking about how to solve his coding problems in his sleep. The son of a developer :)

A fab book that takes you from simple games to really awesome ones in baby steps. My 10 year old uses it unsupervised and has made loads of games which he has also remixed

Brought for my 12yr old son. Seemed well written and he got addicted to the tasks which was nice to see

Great very enjoyable read

Good book to help young coders who want to learn the basics!

Great classroom library resource

good for child to learn

Good quality book, my 8 years old enjoining exercises from this book

Very well written for young readers. Very engaging.

My 7 year old loved this book so much! He's Very much into Minecraft so coding is huge,he learned how to create his own games through this book and is even more eager to create more through coding. Highly recommended!

This is a good one. It successfully goes from basic beginner to more advanced concepts. Let me compare it to some other Scratch books: DK Workbooks: Coding with Scratch Workbook --- this is a short book with only an introduction and the most basic projects. It would be ideal for younger children (6 or 7) or as a self-learning introduction to Scratch for kids (9-10). It should be followed up with another book. Coding in Scratch Games Workbook; DK --- this is another good one to introduce Scratch and create some fun games that build skills. Compared to Code Your Own Games, the DK book starts just as easily, but has more beginner and easy games and doesn't progress as far or as quickly. Coding Games in Scratch; DK --- this is a bigger book and progresses to more sophisticated games by comparison. Although it includes more, it also costs more. My kids are learning through a combination of teaching themselves through the book, experimenting with their own ideas, and some coaching from me. One of the problems that came up because of Coding Games in Scratch (DK) and could have come up with this book, happened when my son was attracted to a more advanced game and built it by just copying the code out of the book. Because he didn't fully understand it, he ran into a lot of difficulty and frustration troubleshooting it. I helped him with that, and then directed him back to some projects that build the basics. If you're not supervising their learning, you might choose a short book that teaches only the basics and then follow up with a book that goes farther, after they've spent about four to ten hours coding, which might be in a day or after a few weeks. This book (Code Your Own Games) or Coding Games in Scratch (DK) are both good to introduce Scratch or to follow up after an introduction. After either of these and about 40 to 80 hours coding, they could move on to "Advanced" Scratch books or other languages. If you're supervising their learning or doing classroom-style work, consider "Learn to Program with Scratch: A Visual Introduction to Programming with Games, Art, Science, and Math"

It is what I expected. Use it for teaching Scratch in computing.

My son likes it and uses it frequently to make interesting games, so I feel that it is worth buying.