

This idealization of tech success can create a paradox, preventing average tech professionals from their own successful journeys. It highlights and unpacks the general hero-worship that the media and our own minds practice about tech founders and tech entrepreneurs. It goes deep on a handful of them, narrowly divulging exactly how a few software developers and startup founders created breakthrough tech products like Gmail, Dropbox, Ring, Snapchat, Bitcoin, Groupon, and more. The book covers numerous tech entrepreneurial founders and software developers, and the exciting brands or products that they created. This book demystifies the computing curriculum for adults, showing parents a whole new side of computing, coding and technology so that they can help their child become a computing genius! Children and adults alike will enjoying playing games while developing their algorithmic thinking and logical reasoning skills.

From a deck of playing cards to the story books on your bookshelf or even the contents of your fridge, How to Raise a Tech Genius uses everyday objects that can be found around your home to illustrate core computer science concepts. The quick, easy and fun fifteen-minute activities within the book have been developed using first-hand teaching expertise and are fully mapped to the computing curriculum taught in schools.

How can we best prepare our children to enter this world? How to Raise a Tech Genius is a practical book that assumes no prior knowledge or understanding of computing and enables parents to learn skills and concepts alongside their children. Logical reasoning, creativity and problem solving are skills that are becoming increasingly essential in the world of work. What we do know is that the workplace of tomorrow will require our children to harness the power behind the technology, to be able to understand key concepts and apply them. It's a part of their lives in a way that even the most tech-savvy adults aren't fully able to comprehend.

We live in a digital world - one in which our children are surrounded by technology. Teach computing concepts without computers! How to Raise a Tech Genius makes the computing curriculum accessible for parents and families.
