#MicroblogMondays 170: The Twins’ Book
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This week, three big boxes arrived in the mail: Author copies for the twins’ book, Hello, Scratch! I’ve been video taping each leg of the journey: telling them that they got the book deal, signing the contract, turning in the first chapter, receiving their first advance check. And now holding their own book.
The book will be released on Thursday, and we plan on taking a ride out to a bookstore to see it in its natural habitat. In the meantime, it’s the Deal of the Day that Thursday (that link will only connect to the book this upcoming Thursday) on the Manning site. And the twins are answering questions all week over on CodeRanch. Exciting times.
I think it’s extra sweet because they worked so hard for so long to get to this point. I think other kids are going to enjoy their book and learn how to program from it, but moreover, I think the twins learned that they could take an enormous project and break it down into manageable chunks and get the whole thing done.
An important lesson to learn.
P.S. It makes a fantastic holiday gift. Just saying.
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21 comments
CONGRATULATIONS! THIS IS SO EXCITING!!
I think it’s awesome that the twins took on such an enormous project and saw it through. It’s a good life lesson!
They wrote a book about Scratch!!!!!!!!! I can not begin to tell you how excited I am, especially given Wolvog’s help when I was tackling Scratch for a project.
But also, what a huge endeavor. I know you’re proud of them Mel and you have so many reasons to be. Congratulations!!
Wow what an accomplishment! It’s so exciting!
Wow, so many congratulations on the book! That’s an amazing accomplishment. As the spouse of a tech guy, I think this is all kinds of (nerdly) wonderful!
Congratulations to the twins! Wonderful!
Your kids are amazing! Too cool. 🙂
That’s awesome! Congrats to them!
PS That is such an important skill to learn. I’m honestly a little jealous.
Wonderful news! Congratulations to the twins!
Mazel Tov to the twins
I think this is all so exciting. I’m in awe of them for accomplishing something this big. They are my inspiration!
Wow! Exciting! I’ll check it out. Congrats to the twins!
Congratulations!! 🙂
Congratulations, Chickie Nob and Wolvog! Amazing accomplishment, for all the reasons you said. Super cool. Do they get to do a book tour type thing?
Woo Hoo! Congratulations authors!
That’s quite something. Congratulations to them.
That’s really cool! Hopefully it will also encourage more young girls to get into programming too
Congratulations! What an amazing accomplishment.
So exciting! Congrats!
So flipping exciting for all of you! The reward for so much hard work and dedication.
I found a few of the discussions on CodeRanch and am so impressed not only by the fact that your kids are able to think like coders, but that they are teaching others to think like coders. What a multi-facted skill!
I am continually impressed by your kids. How awesome!