Machine Learning for Kids Dale Lane No Starch Press 2021 Scratch Python AI

Most books that promise to explain artificial intelligence to children explain it and stop. This one has the child build things. Dale Lane, an IBM engineer who created the free Machine Learning for Kids platform the book is built around, walks through project after project in Scratch and Python: a system that recognises whether a sentence is a compliment or an insult, a snap-judgement game, a smart classroom assistant, a program that learns to play Pac-Man, an AI that spots fake news, a chatbot, and a face-recognition mask. Each project trains a real model on data the child collects, so the ideas that stick are the ones that matter — that a model is only as good as its training data, that bias comes in through the data, that a computer is recognising a pattern rather than understanding. Around 270 pages, heavily illustrated with screenshots and block-code diagrams. It is one of the very few genuinely hands-on AI books written for a young reader.

📚 Book Details

• ✍️ Author: Dale Lane
• 🏢 Publisher: No Starch Press
• 📅 Year: 2021, first edition
• 📄 Format: Paperback, approximately 270 pages, illustrated throughout with screenshots and block-code diagrams
• 🔖 ISBN: 978-1-7185-0056-3
• 💻 Uses: Scratch and Python, with the author\'s free Machine Learning for Kids web platform. No paid software required
• 🏷️ Ex-Library: no — checked, with no stamps, pockets, labels or date-due slips anywhere
• ✅ Best For: homeschool computing and STEM for roughly ages ten to fifteen, coding clubs and classrooms, parents who want a child to understand AI rather than just use it, and any young reader who already knows a little Scratch

📋 Condition: Like New

• ⚠️ Minor handling marks on the back cover
• ✅ Cover is clean with minimal wear and the spine is intact and unbent
• ✅ Interior pages are clean and white — no highlighting, no writing in the pages examined
• ✅ Pages are tight and well bound, with no significant creasing or curling
• ✅ Not an ex-library copy — no stamps, call-number labels, card pockets, date-due slips or barcode stickers

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