This book was much shorter than I anticipated it to be.

ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This short book will be enjoyed by both of my daughters. The brief biographies of female coders, along with simple projects, will be referenced again and again, I'm sure.

I do wish Girl Code Revolution was longer, but it is a great way to ease into a new coding site during our homeschool STEM time.

"This book is part how-to, part profile, and all about leading the girl code revolution! Discover step-by-step instructions for interesting projects and profiles of inspirational female coders and leaders who are breaking down barriers in STEM fields. Page Plus URLs inside the book take readers to fun coding projects online!"

The concept behind this book is fantastic and I wish it had met expectations. The profiles of inspirational female coders were a great choice that I wish were longer and showed more clearly how they came to be in their fields to help guide girls to see the various ways they can enter the field. It included several fun tidbits about the history of terms like "bugs" that I really enjoyed to. However, the "step-by-step instructions" seemed lacking. Though the glossary helped, the overall impression was that you needed coding background to be successful in even understanding some of the sentences, which I did not expect and seemed counter-intuitive to the purpose of the book.

Disappointing Book Geared to One Website

When I saw this book at one of my favorite book review sites, I thought it was a fun idea—a book to help girls explore coding projects and learn about well-known female coders. Unfortunately, it comes across to me as simply something that goes along with the Vidcode website, a woman-founded company whose goal is to help girls explore coding using Javascript. The projects in the book aren't just example programs; the young girl is meant to code it on that website. The book seems to assume prior knowledge of coding, or at least it does not describe and define the basic concepts of computer programming well at all. The profiles of female coders are brief, literally a couple of paragraphs. The women are inspiring, though I certainly wish the author told more about them. There were some language errors I hope will be cleared up before publication, like misspelling “dog” as “doge”... not once but twice, in the main text and in the code snippet! I found this to just be a very odd book that was not as general or descriptive as I would have liked.