ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book would not have been possible without the exceptional support of the No Starch Press team. Thanks especially to Bill Pollock, Tyler Ortman, Riley Hoffman, Jan Cash, Serena Yang, Amanda Hariri, and Julia Borden for their tireless editing, review, and marketing, and for the innumerable ways they helped me improve this book from my original manuscript.

Thanks to Bryan Fagan for his awesome work as a technical reviewer.

Thanks to all of my current and former students who inspire me to continue to create interesting, engaging content—especially Shah and Susan Rahman, Justin and Diane Turner, Jacob Elliott, Brian Murray, Aaron Walker, Robert Brown, Trent Deal, Seth Park, Simon Singh, Andrew Miller, the Ctrl-Alt-Del robotics team, Jackson Grant, Quintin Kerns, Grace and Jack Halley, Matthew Harpur, and David Knight. Thanks also to the students from 150 countries enrolled in my online courses, especially Hayden Redd and Bob Watson.

Thanks to my inspiring colleagues and friends who continually motivate me to be my best: Markus Hitz, Chuck Robertson, Irene Kokkala, Tamirat Abegaz, Antonio Sanz Montemayor, Don Watkins, Eddie Mienie, Rose Procter, Ron Larson, Victor Parker, Keith Antonia, Billy Wells, Jim Goldy, James Daniel, and Craig Gentry.

Thanks to my father-in-law, Norman Petty, whose passion for technology is surpassed only by his love for family, and my stepdad, Dale Carver, who always has time for my 3D-printed gadgets. Thanks most of all to my beautiful wife, Bev, and my amazing sons, Alex and Max, for their unending patience while I wrote two books in three years.

Special thanks to Kalen Cole. At eleven years old, Kalen embraced my first book, Teach Your Kids to Code, learning to code at his own pace. He even sent me his first creative design using lines of code he’d written himself. Way to go, Kalen! You are an inspiration to every kid who’s just beginning to discover who they are and what they want to become.