Teaching kids to code is an excellent way to pass the time for those stuck at home. Right now, Humble has an excellent pay-what-you-want ebook bundle to help keep the kids busy with Scratch, HTML, JavaScript, Robotics, Python, and more. The Humble Book Bundle: Coding Starter Kit by No Starch Press. The bundle has another 12 days to go at this writing.

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Like all Humble Bundles, you pay what you want for this book bundle, with additional offerings unlocked at various payment levels. The most expensive is just $15 and comes with every book from every tier. A portion of every sale goes to charity.

At the $1 tier, the bundle is all about Scratch—and indeed, one of the default charities for this particular bundle is the Scratch Foundation. Chipping in a buck gets you the Official Scratch Jr. Book, 25 Scratch 3 Games for Kids, Build your Own Website, Make Your Own Scratch Games, and Super Scratch Gaming Adventure. For downtime, the $1 tier also has Lauren Ipsum: A Story About Computer Science and Other Improbable Things.

Upgrade to the $8 tier and the bundle adds A Beginner’s Guide to Circuits, Learn Robotics with Raspberry Pi, Micro:bit for Mad Scientists: 30 Clever Coding and Electronics Projects for Kids, JavaScript for Kids, and Electronics for Kids. Not a bad bundle, though you’ll need to adapt the Micro:bit title to whatever mini PC you have, unless you happen to own the BBC-sponsored bit of kit or want to order one from Adafruit, Newegg, and others.

Finally, we’ve got the top tier at $15, which will have kids learning to code with Minecraft, and four different titles all about Python including how to do math with Python and how to make computer games.

Not a bad bundle at all to keep the tykes busy. If you’re looking to brush up on your own skills while you’re stuck at home, check out the “Land A Tech Job 2.0” bundle. It’s loaded with “For Dummies” books about a wide variety of tech topics and general life skills for job seekers. 

[Today’s deal: Humble Book Bundle: Coding Starter Kit By No Starch Press.]

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