Do your kids want to learn how to create a website and programing? Well the following books by No Starch Press are a great way to get kids started:

Ruby Wizardry is a playful, illustrated tale that will teach you how to program in Ruby by taking you on a fantastical journey. As you follow the adventures of young heroes Ruben and Scarlet, you'll learn real programming skills, like how to:

• Use fundamental concepts like variables, symbols, arrays, and strings
• Work with Ruby hashes to create a programmable breakfast menu
• Control program flow with loops and conditionals to help the Royal Plumber
• Test your wild and crazy ideas in IRB and save your programs as scripts
• Create a class of mini-wizards, each with their own superpower!
• Organize and reuse your code with methods and lists
• Write your own amazing interactive stories using Ruby

Along the way, you'll meet colorful characters from around the kingdom, like the hacker Queen, the Off-White Knight, and Wherefore the minstrel. Ruby Wizardry will have you (or your little wizard) hooked on programming in no time.
For ages 10+ (and their parents!)


Build Your Own Website is a fun, illustrated introduction to the basics of creating a website. Join Kim and her little dog Tofu as she learns HTML, the language of web pages, and CSS, the language used to style web pages, from the Web Guru and Glinda, the Good Witch of CSS.

Once she figures out the basics, Kim travels to WordPress City to build her first website, with Wendy, the WordPress Maven, at her side. They take control of WordPress® themes, install useful plugins, and more.

As you follow along, you'll learn how to:

• Use HTML tags
• Make your site shine with CSS
• Customize WordPress to fit your needs
• Choose a company to host your site and get advice on picking a good domain name

The patient, step-by-step advice you'll find in Build Your Own Website will help you get your website up and running in no time. Stop dreaming of your perfect website and start making it!


JavaScript for Kids is a lighthearted introduction that teaches programming essentials through patient, step-by-step examples paired with funny illustrations. You'll begin with the basics, like working with strings, arrays, and loops, and then move on to more advanced topics, like building interactivity with jQuery and drawing graphics with Canvas.
Along the way, you'll write games such as Find the Buried Treasure, Hangman, and Snake. You'll also learn how to:

• Create functions to organize and reuse your code
• Write and modify HTML to create dynamic web pages
• Use the DOM and jQuery to make your web pages react to user input
• Use the Canvas element to draw and animate graphics
• Program real user-controlled games with collision detection and score keeping

With visual examples like bouncing balls, animated bees, and racing cars, you can really see what you're programming. Each chapter builds on the last, and programming challenges at the end of each chapter will stretch your brain and inspire your own amazing programs. Make something cool with JavaScript today! Ages 10+ (and their parents!)