The Essential Code

★ 17歲科技創業家 Samaira Mehta 親身經歷啟發，寫給新世代孩子的 STEM 圖像橋梁書！★ 把函式、佇列、平行處理等程式概念，巧妙融入校園友情與自我突破故事。★ 適合喜歡程式、科學、發明與圖像小說的孩子，也鼓勵女孩勇敢走進科技世界！Sama 熱愛解決問題，也喜歡用資料和程式讓世界變得更好。升上中學後，她滿心期待加入 Tech Club，卻發現大家似乎都比她更懂 coding。她提出幫忙公車司機設計省時路線的點子，卻被認為「不夠複雜」；她想參加 Code Crusher 錦標賽，卻開始懷疑自己是否真的有資格站在那裡。直到新鄰居 Zoe 出現——這個會自己打造氣墊船的女孩，讓 Sama 重新燃起信心。兩人互相啟發，Sama 想出一款以兔子為主角、邊玩邊學程式的桌遊。這一次，她能用自己的方式證明：科技不只是寫出很難的程式，更是發現問題、幫助他人，並讓更多人加入創造未來的行列。推薦給喜歡《Click》《Real Friends》以及 STEM、校園友情、圖像小說的讀者。也適合親子共讀或課堂延伸討論，用來引導孩子認識程式邏輯、創意解題與科技中的性別平等。Big-thinking Sama loves coding, but is she skilled enough to fit in at Tech Club? This is a playful and STEM-rich story inspired by the real life of its seventeen-year-old author. Sama's starting middle school! Maybe Tech Club will be a good place to fit in. She's into solving problems, building clever machines, and collecting beautiful data, plus her friend Nancy has given her a cool book on coding. But everyone at Tech Club is already so good at coding--will Sama's contributions be enough for her to be inc

本書是一個關於友情、勇氣與希望的冬日故事。十歲半的女孩 Blessing 正面臨三個難題：霸凌、母親的憂鬱，以及永無止盡的寒冬。就在她快要放棄時，一位六百歲的雪人 Albert Framlington 出現在她面前——他遵守〈雪人守則第二條〉：雪人永遠幫助需要幫助的孩子。故事以奇幻的設定包裹現實的情感，筆觸溫暖而誠實，描繪出一段互相療癒的友誼。這不只是關於冬天，更是關於心中光亮的故事。‘Sparklingly humorous and poignant, it’s a perfect seasonal story’ Guardian, Best Children’s Books of the Year A beautifully hopeful, funny and heartwarming tale about the lasting power of love and friendship, from the critically-acclaimed and award-winning screenwriter behind Pixar’s Luca and Paddington 2. ??A heartwarming seasonal adventure for the whole family to share ??The perfect Christmas keepsake gift for young readers ??A beautifully-written, funny and moving tale of friendship and bravery In London, in a winter which shows no sign of ending, a unique friendship begins. This is the story of Blessing, aged ten-and-a-half, and Albert Framlington, aged six hundred – an eccentric snowman who has seen many winters in many cities, and who is duty-bound by the Snowman Code to help any child in

探索現代最具影響力的商業領袖之一的起源 #1 紐約時報暢銷書“一本出奇坦誠的回憶錄，講述了微軟大亨早期的故事…讀這本書就像在看一幅熟悉的黑白素描，將細節填充並用鮮明的色彩渲染。” — GeekWire比爾·蓋茨的商業成就廣為人知：這位二十歲便從哈佛退學創立軟體公司，最終打造出一家行業巨頭，改變了世界的運作和人們的生活；這位身家數十億的億萬富翁，將目光轉向慈善事業，致力於應對氣候變遷、全球健康問題和美國教育的挑戰。然而，《源碼》並非關於微軟、蓋茨基金會或未來科技的書籍。它是比爾·蓋茨的個人故事，講述了他如何成為今天的自己：他的童年、早期的熱情與追求。這是關於他原則堅定的祖母和有抱負的父母，關於他最初的深厚友誼和最好的朋友突然去世的故事；他如何掙扎於融入群體，並發現了編程與電腦的世界，進入了一個嶄新的時代；以及在青少年時期，如何開始踏上這條將他從午夜的電腦中心逃亡到大學宿舍的道路，最終引發了一場改變世界的革命。比爾·蓋茨第一次親自講述這個故事：智慧、溫暖、真實，呈現了一幅迷人的美國人生畫像。#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age“A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years…Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill in the details, and paint it in vivid color.” —GeekWireThe business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed th

In this funny and heartfelt slice-of-life graphic novel for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Kayla Miller, when coding whiz Zoey goes from homeschooled to new school, she develops an app to help her make friends. Will the Cool Code help Zoey fit in? Or will it completely crash her social life?In an attempt to fit in, Zoey develops an app called the Cool Code with a cute llama avatar that will tell her everything from what to say to what to wear based on pop culture algorithms she's uploaded.But when the app gives her ridiculous advice, awkwardness and hilarity ensues. With a few upgrades and a bit of debugging from the coding club, the app actually works--Zoey gets really popular . . . and gets her pulled in all kinds of directions, including away from her real friends.Life's most complicated choices. . . is there a code for that?

1940, Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. Three very different women are recruited to the mysterious Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla has the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses - but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, working to translate decoded enemy secrets.Self-made Mab masters the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and the poverty of her East-End London upbringing. And shy local girl Beth is the outsider who trains as one of the Park's few female cryptanalysts. 1947, London.Seven years after they first meet, on the eve of the royal wedding between Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, disaster threatens. Osla, Mab and Beth are estranged, their friendship torn apart by secrets and betrayal. Yet now they must race against the clock to crack one final code together, before it's too late, for them and for their country.If you loved The Crown, don't mis

Quack, moo and neigh along to this riotous cumulative song that features animals of all shapes and sizes. Inspired by a folk tale from Chile, this classic Barefoot Books singalong story introduces children to animals and their babies, and teaches how to count up to 16 in multiples of 2. A QR code on the book provides access to video animation and audio.

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Aimed at those with experience using the technique, this handbook discusses some of the problems commonly encountered with polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The author employs a humorous, down-to-earth