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HELLO RUBY: ADVENTURES IN CODING

Linda Liukas

Meet Ruby--a small girl with a huge imagination. In Ruby's world anything is possible if you put your mind to it. When her dad asks her to find five hidden gems Ruby is determined to solve the puzzle with the help of her new friends, including the Wise Snow Leopard, the Friendly Foxes, and the Messy Robots.
"Code is the 21st century literacy and the need for people to speak the ABCs of Programming is imminent." --Linda Liukas

As Ruby stomps around her world kids will be introduced to the basic concepts behind coding and programming through storytelling. Learn how to break big problems into small problems, repeat tasks, look for patterns, create step-by-step plans, and think outside the box. With hands-on activities included in every chapter, future coders will be thrilled to put their own imaginations to work.

Linda Liukas is a programmer, storyteller, and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland. The idea for Hello Ruby first made its debut on Kickstarter and quickly smashed its $10,000 funding goal in just three and a half hours gathering $380,000 in total to become Kickstarter's most funded children's book.

Linda is a central figure in the world of programming and worked on edutech before it was even called that. Linda is the founder of Rails Girls, a global phenomenon teaching the basics of programming to young women all over the world. The workshops, organized by volunteers in over 160 cities, have in a few years taught more than 10,000 women the foundations of programming.

Linda has studied in business, design, and engineering at Aalto University and product engineering at Stanford University. She was selected as the 2013 Ruby Hero (the most notable prize within the Ruby programming community) and she's the Digital Champion of Finland, appointed by EU commissioner Neelie Kroes. She lives in Helsinki, Findland.
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Published 2015-10-06 by Feiwel & Friends/MacMillan

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Published 2015-10-06 by Feiwel & Friends/MacMillan

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Latvia/ MULA, Korea/Gilbut, Dutch/Nieuwezijds, Australia/Puffin, Finland/Otava, Japan/Shoeisha, Sierra Madre/Poland, and Sweden/Volante

The heroine of Liukas' book is a girl, but it's not a book for girls.

Hello Ruby is way more than a children's book.

Auch die Finnin Linda Liukas setzt auf die Macht eines altehrwürdigen Mediums: Sie hat gerade ein viel gelobtes Bilderbuch veröffentlicht*. Darin geht es um die aben- teuerliche Reise der kleinen Ruby. Unter- wegs klingen, wie von ungefähr, immer wieder Grundfragen der Computerlogik an: Da trifft Ruby etwa auf Füchse, die mit dem Bewirtschaften ihres Gemüsegartens überfordert sind – hier ist offenbar ein klei- nes Mädchen gefragt, das klar strukturierte Anweisungen geben kann.

Getting Girls Into Programming, One Children’s Book At A Time.

She wants kids to understand and embrace basic computer logic, so that they later formulate code in the same effortless and creative way they build structures with LEGO.

The book was just featured in The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11643191/Why-women-make-gifted-coders.html Read more...

My name is Linda Liukas. I have spent the last three years teaching programming and making the world of technology more approachable for the millions through co-founding a non-profit called Rails Girls and working at Codecademy. Now, I want to combine software with storytelling. I want to write and illustrate a book for young children about the magical world of technology - Hello Ruby. Read more...