In the key of code /
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TextPublication details: London : Walker Books, 2019Description: 410 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781406389333 (pbk.) :Genre/Form: Experimental fiction. | Children's stories. | Fiction 9+. | General. | Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories | Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories | Children's / Teenage fiction: School stories | Children's / Teenage general interest: Science & technology: general interes | Educational: Technology | Educational: IT & computing, ICT | Children's / Teenage general interest: Girls & women | Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Friends & friendship issues DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: A debut novel about an initially-lonely girl who finds both friendship and an immersive area of knowledge at the school's coding club. As the daughter of two talented musicians, but unable to get the hang of an instrument herself, through coding she finds her place in the world. An original, inventive and heart-warming novel from an exciting debut author about a lonely new girl and an unlikely friendship formed in a school code club that will appeal to fans of Sarah Crossan.When twelve-year-old Emmy's musical family moves to California so her dad can take a job with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Emmy has never felt more out of tune. But when she ends up in a school computer science club, she finds that she can understand code through a language she is familiar with: music. Slowly, Emmy makes friends with Abigail and the two girls start to discover their voices through the programming language of Java. Extraordinarily crafted, the novel begins to incorporate Java's syntax and concepts as Emmy, and ultimately the reader, learns to think in code. By the end, Emmy doesn't feel like a wrong note, but like a musician in the world's most beautiful symphony.
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| JF .L921 2000 Gathering blue / | JF .L921 2004 Messenger / | JF .L921 2012 Son / | JF .L937 2019 In the key of code / | JF .L954 2021 Too bright to see / | JF .L963 1998 Die Fiedlerin / | JF .M123 2018 Where the world ends / |
A debut novel about an initially-lonely girl who finds both friendship and an immersive area of knowledge at the school's coding club. As the daughter of two talented musicians, but unable to get the hang of an instrument herself, through coding she finds her place in the world. An original, inventive and heart-warming novel from an exciting debut author about a lonely new girl and an unlikely friendship formed in a school code club that will appeal to fans of Sarah Crossan.When twelve-year-old Emmy's musical family moves to California so her dad can take a job with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Emmy has never felt more out of tune. But when she ends up in a school computer science club, she finds that she can understand code through a language she is familiar with: music. Slowly, Emmy makes friends with Abigail and the two girls start to discover their voices through the programming language of Java. Extraordinarily crafted, the novel begins to incorporate Java's syntax and concepts as Emmy, and ultimately the reader, learns to think in code. By the end, Emmy doesn't feel like a wrong note, but like a musician in the world's most beautiful symphony.