"Gene Luen Yang's talent is prodigious, his enthusiasm contagious....Even this confirmed technophobe was ready to learn coding." --Katherine Applegate, author of Crenshaw and The One and Only Ivan
"Gene Yang brings computer coding to life." --
Entertainment Weekly "
Secret Coders not only uses Logo but also touches on computer fundamentals like binary code and the three major ways that code is organized: sequence, iteration, and selection. By the end of
Secret Coders, readers will learn them all, right alongside Hopper and Eni, not as something dry or rote, but something transformative." --
Wired "Gene Luen Yang's talent is prodigious, his enthusiasm contagious....Even this confirmed technophobe was ready to learn coding." --Katherine Applegate, author of
Crenshaw and
The One and Only Ivan "Yang and Holmes do such a great job explaining the concepts that even programming newbies will be likely to catch on. A cliff-hanger ending hints at deepening mysteries to come." --
Booklist "Holmes's bold cartoony illustrations are a natural fit for Yang's geeky enthusiasm, and their combined effort offers an enticing first taste of coding that may very well yield some converts." --
Publishers Weekly "An excellent first purchase that introduces readers to the power of computer programming through an engaging graphic mystery." --
School Library Journal "Convincing kids that coding "truly is magic" is Yang's and Holmes's agenda here, and their series opener certainly does the trick." --
The Horn Book
