In the Key of Code

"Like I said, we tried to pick books that were a little bit different. This is a really nice story. It’s about a young girl who’s feeling quite alone and a little bit detached and she finds comfort in music. Again, initially, I thought this was just too much of a story, that there wasn’t enough science in it and it didn’t get enough into the coding. But then, as the book progresses, you realize that she is also learning about scripting and coding. Towards the end, the book really is getting into the syntax and how you construct algorithms and how you logically solve a problem. The book does it in a really nice way and so we felt, again, that this was a book that would be very good for someone who’s perhaps intimidated by the idea of coding. It’s for someone who is thinking, ‘Well, I’m not very good with computers and coding is not something I look at.’ Then very naturally—through what I think is a really well told story—you learn about coding and you realize it’s logical, that there’s nothing really that threatening about it. You can make mistakes and it’s not the end of the world. I think for a lot of people it’s just about getting that confidence to start, especially with computers and especially for young women. There’s a stereotype that maybe they’re not so good at coding which is completely wrong and this book addresses that. Yes, and she’s also quite good at it."