Books with author Morgan Weick

JavaScript is the programming language of the Internet, the secret sauce that makes the Web awesome, your favorite sites interactive, and online games fun!JavaScript for Kids is a lighthearted introduction that teaches programming essentials through patient, step-by-step examples paired with funny illustrations. You’ll begin with the basics, like working with strings, arrays, and loops, and then move on to more advanced topics, like building interactivity with jQuery and drawing graphics with Canvas.Along the way, you’ll write games such as Find the Buried Treasure, Hangman, and Snake. You’ll also learn how to:–Create functions to organize and reuse your code–Write and modify HTML to create dynamic web pages–Use the DOM and jQuery to make your web pages react to user input–Use the Canvas element to draw and animate graphics–Program real user-controlled games with collision detection and score keepingWith visual examples like bouncing balls, animated bees, and racing cars, you can really see what you’re programming. Each chapter builds on the last, and programming challenges at the end of each chapter will stretch your brain and inspire your own amazing programs. Make something cool with JavaScript today!Ages 10+ (and their parents!)

Fourteen children call The Camp their home, but it is not the type of home the orphans had dreamed about. Held captive by two women, known by the children as The Wardens, they are consistently subjected to abuse and hate, and only survive by the love they have for each other. The grounds of their home is surrounded by a tall electric fence, which makes their disheveled lifestyle inescapable. But when some of the children decide to make a bid for freedom, they learn what life beyond the fence is like. Struggle and hardship follow them through their journey, but finding a small makeshift home in the woods could represent the hope that they desperately seek. Trouble comes when the group ends up separated and each must learn to survive on their own. Does life outside The Camp become the life they always thought it would be, or is it more difficult than they could ever have imagined?

JavaScript is the programming language of the Internet, the secret sauce that makes the Web awesome, your favorite sites interactive, and online games fun!JavaScript for Kids is a lighthearted introduction that teaches programming essentials through patient, step-by-step examples paired with funny illustrations. You’ll begin with the basics, like working with strings, arrays, and loops, and then move on to more advanced topics, like building interactivity with jQuery and drawing graphics with Canvas.Along the way, you’ll write games such as Find the Buried Treasure, Hangman, and Snake. You’ll also learn how to:–Create functions to organize and reuse your code–Write and modify HTML to create dynamic web pages–Use the DOM and jQuery to make your web pages react to user input–Use the Canvas element to draw and animate graphics–Program real user-controlled games with collision detection and score keepingWith visual examples like bouncing balls, animated bees, and racing cars, you can really see what you’re programming. Each chapter builds on the last, and programming challenges at the end of each chapter will stretch your brain and inspire your own amazing programs. Make something cool with JavaScript today!Ages 10+ (and their parents!)

Fourteen children call The Camp their home, but it is not the type of home the orphans had dreamed about. Held captive by two women, known by the children as The Wardens, they are consistently subjected to abuse and hate, and only survive by the love they have for each other. The grounds of their home is surrounded by a tall electric fence, which makes their disheveled lifestyle inescapable. But when some of the children decide to make a bid for freedom, they learn what life beyond the fence is like. Struggle and hardship follow them through their journey, but finding a small makeshift home in the woods could represent the hope that they desperately seek. Trouble comes when the group ends up separated and each must learn to survive on their own. Does life outside The Camp become the life they always thought it would be, or is it more difficult than they could ever have imagined?