Spotlight on Coding Club! #4 by Michelle Schusterman (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Spotlight on Coding Club! #4 by Michelle Schusterman Perfect for fans of The Babysitters Club and anyone interested in computer science, this series is published in partnership with the organisation Girls Who Code! FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Its almost time for the talent show at school, and Erin couldnt be more excited. Its her time to take center stage! Plus, she and her friends from coding club are putting together an awesome coding program for the show.But Erin has a big secret- she has anxiety. And when things start piling up at home and school, she starts having trouble handling everything. Her friends from coding club have always been there for her, but will they be as understanding when the going gets tough? Sometimes in coding--like in friendship--things dont go exactly as planned, but the outcome can be even better than youd imagined.Perfect for fans of The Babysitters Club and anyone interested in computer science, this series is published in partnership with the organization Girls Who Code!Its almost time for the talent show at school, and Erin couldnt be more excited. Its her time to take center stage! Plus, she and her friends from coding club are putting together an awesome coding program for the show.But Erin has a big secret- she has anxiety. And when things start piling up at home and school, she starts having trouble handling everything. Her friends from coding club have always been there for her, but will they be as understanding when the going gets tough? Sometimes in coding--like in friendship--things dont go exactly as planned, but the outcome can be even better than youd imagined. Author Biography Michelle Schusterman is the author of I Heart Band, a Scholastic Reading Club pick, The Kat Sinclair Files, and Olive and the Backstage Ghost. Shes also an instructor at Writopia Lab, a nonprofit organization that offers creative-writing workshops for children and teens from all backgrounds. Find out more at michelleschusterman.com. Promotional Perfect for fans of The Babysitters Club and anyone interested in computer science, this series is published in partnership with the organization Girls Who Code! Promotional "Headline" Perfect for fans of The Babysitters Club and anyone interested in computer science, this series is published in partnership with the organization Girls Who Code! Excerpt from Book Chapter One My heart raced as I hurried down the corridor, glancing at my watch. First day back from spring break, and I was almost two minutes late for coding club--but I had a really good reason. I burst through the door, and over the tops of the computers, all heads turned toward me. Only one way to handle a mildly embarrassing moment like this. Doubling over, I clutched my sides. "Water," I wheezed. "Water." Everyone started giggling. From the third row, I saw my coding club besties--Lucy Morrison, Sophia Torres, Maya Chung, and Leila Devi--laughing with the rest of the class. At the front of the room, Mrs. Clark smiled at me. "Everything okay, Erin?" I straightened, fanning my face with my hand. "Yes! Sorry Im late, but I have an announcement." Mrs. Clark crossed her arms and leaned against her desk. "Funny, I have a few announcements myself. But why dont you go first?" "Why thank you," I said, with an exaggerated bow that got more snickers from the class. Then I pulled a folded-up flyer from my jeans pocket. "I just saw Ms. Davies printing these." I held the flyer out for everyone to read the three words at the top, in a giant font: ALL THE TALENTS! "The talent show, yeah," said Bradley Steinberg. "Everyone already knows thats next Friday. Im doing a stand-up act!" I wiggled the flyer. "But this year, the film club is working with the theater club to do a different format. Everyone who wants to enter will make a video. And the talents can be anything , like animation or . . . or robot building!" I grinned at Leila, and her wide blue eyes lit up. Leila was super into robotics. Then I pointed at Maya, our schools resident fashion expert. Her short black hair was swooped over to the right and pinned down with, like, a dozen star-shaped barrettes that matched the pattern on her purple leggings. "Or clothes you designed! It could be anything. And then everyone can watch the videos and vote!" "Which was actually going to be my first announcement," Mrs. Clark said, smiling as she gestured for me to sit down. I hurried over to the empty seat between Maya and Lucy, as Mrs. Clark continued. "So its true: This years talent show is going to have a new format. Like Erin said, anyone who wants to enter can make a video, then upload it to our schools video platform. Then they can share them through a web app that all students will have access to. After everyone votes, the top three finalists will perform at an assembly a week from this coming Friday." To my right, Lucy sat up straighter, one of her long, thick braids falling over her shoulder. "A web app?" "Thats right," Mrs. Clark said, eyes twinkling behind her glasses. "The film club will be compiling the videos, and our school already has the video platform, but the web app doesnt exist . . . yet." She raised her eyebrows meaningfully, and murmurs broke out. "Do we get to design it?" Sophia asked eagerly. Shed turned away from her computer to stretch out her super-long legs, and I noticed her track shoes were extra muddy. Sophia lived with her parents, three sisters, and her grandmother (whod moved here from Puerto Rico to help out), so she didnt usually have money for extras. Mrs. Clark nodded. "Its a pretty big project with some tight deadlines. But I think youre all up for the challenge!" "Awesome," Lucy said fervently. Maya and I exchanged a grin because Lucy looked like shed just won the lottery. We all loved coding, but Lucy couldnt get enough of it. Her mother was a computer scientist--one of the first African American women at her company--and the apple hadnt fallen far from the tree. And honestly, I was just as excited as Lucy about this project. I was definitely entering the talent show. Performing was 100 percent my thing. Or maybe 90 percent, because I had coding club and film club. One of the drawbacks of my interests, though, was that theater didnt fit into my schedule. I still missed being onstage. Besides, even more fun projects to work on were exactly what I needed. Anything to keep me from thinking about The Thing I Wasnt Supposed to Think About. As everyone logged into their computers, Maya leaned over and nudged me. "So whats your act gonna be?" I adopted a look of mock innocence. "What act?" "Come on," Maya said teasingly. "Theres no way youre not entering the talent show. Singing, dancing, doing impressions and silly voices--you actually have all the talents. Or, at least, a lot of them." "Moi?" I gasped, placing a hand on my chest. On my other side, Lucy started chuckling. "Vhat are zees talents you speak of? Vhat zilly voices? Vhat dancing? Vhat--" "Erin?" I jumped, startled, and realized Mrs. Clark was looking at me. "Vhat? I mean, yes?" "Mind if we get started?" "But of course," I drawled, and Maya shook her head, grinning. For the next ten minutes, Mrs. Clark explained more about how the web app would work. Students and teachers would register with their e-mail accounts to get access. Then contestants would upload a video, and anyone could view it if they were signed in. She started a task list on the board, and soon everyone was calling out suggestions. "Web design," Maya said. " All the Talents sounds like a reality show--maybe we can make the web app look like it really is one!" "Each student can only vote once, right?" Lucy chimed in. "Well have to program it so that once you click on a vote button, you cant click on any others." "There should be a notification system," added Maddie Lewis. "An easy way to let everyone know who the finalists are." "Maybe we could program it to automatically send updates, too!" added her twin brother, Mark. "Like whos in the lead every day. That might get more kids to watch and vote." The suggestions kept coming, and soon the board was filled with Mrs. Clarks writing. She hadnt been kidding--this was a huge project. And then we had to spend another ten minutes figuring out which ideas we needed. Like we learned at the hackathon (a day of coding where teams won prizes at the end), adding too many things could create "feature creep" (when a project became impossible to use because it had too much going on). So we had to cut down the list. A lot. After all that, though, we still had to start on the real work! "Next step: splitting into groups and dividing up these tasks," Mrs. Clark said. Maya and I automatically scooted our chairs closer to Lucy. On her other side, Leila and Sophia did the same thing. "Why split up a dream team?" I asked Mrs. Clark, and she laughed. It was true, though. We werent just best friends; we were an awesome team, too--like at the hackathon in the fall, when our robot had turned the event into an epic dance party. "Any of these tasks sound particularly interesting?" Mrs. Clark asked. Lucy was gazing at the board. "I was thinking about the voting feature were designing for the app," she said. "Could we make it so that students rank their top three favorites?" Maya tilted her head. "Or, like, rank each contestant on different qualities? Creativity, originality . . ." Maya hadnt been so into coding club at the beginning of the school year, but she was totally into it now. "Thatd give us a lot of data," I pointed out. "Way more than if everyone just voted once for their favorite. Wed know why certain contestants were more popular than others." Mrs. Clark was nodding. "Its certainly not necessary for the talent show to be a success, but it might be interesting to analyze that kind of data afterward! So, is this what your group wants to do?" We all looked at one another eagerly. "Yeah, I think so!" Lucy said. As Mrs. Clark moved on to the next group, I pulled out a notebook and pen. "I like Mayas idea about voting in different categories," I said, jotting it down. "What do you all think?" "I think its a great idea," Leila said, adjusting her head scarf. "Its easy to watch two contestants singing or dancing and just pick which one you think is best. But if contestants are going to be doing all kinds of stuff, like a stand-up act or--" "Or a flying robot?" I interrupted, waggling my eyebrows. Leila giggled. "Or that, yeah. Itd be harder to judge which one is better. Rating different qualities for each contestant seems more fair." "What should the qualities be?" Sophia asked. Maya had opened the browser on her computer and pulled up the website for a talent reality show. "These contestants are judged based on overall performance, technical ability, style and execution, and originality." I scribbled in my notebook. "So if we use those qualities, our program will have to average them together for each contestant . . . but how? Ratings?" "That might be confusing for people voting," said Lucy, tapping her pencil on her notebook. "I mean, what does three stars really mean? Why dont we make it even simpler: an upvote for each category? Like a thumbs-up you click on--and whoever gets the most thumbs-ups, wins." "Is anyone else picturing the winner onstage, surrounded by hundreds of thumbs?" I asked with a perfectly straight face, and everyone giggled. W Details ISBN039954254X Author Michelle Schusterman Pages 144 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Series Girls Who Code Year 2018 ISBN-10 039954254X ISBN-13 9780399542541 Format Hardcover Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States Audience Age 8-12 Imprint Penguin Workshop DEWEY 813.6 Language English Series Number 4 UK Release Date 2018-10-02 Publication Date 2018-10-02 US Release Date 2018-10-02 Illustrator Ramon Bachs Birth 1939 Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, USA Position Department of Psychology Qualifications Ph.D. Audience Children / Juvenile NZ Release Date 2018-10-17 AU Release Date 2018-10-17 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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