Paths & Portals

Hardcover, 88 pages

English language

Published 2016 by First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, First Second, First Second Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-62672-340-5
OCLC Number:: 892701920

Volume 2 in the mind-bending new series from Gene Luen Yang! There's something lurking beneath the surface of Stately Academy -- literally. In a secret underground classroom Hopper, Eni, and Josh discover that the campus was once home to the Bee School, an institute where teachers, students, and robots worked together to unravel the mysteries of coding. Hopper and her friends are eager to follow in this tradition and become top-rate coders. But why are Principal Dean and the rugby team suddenly so interested in their extracurricular activities? - Back cover.

2 editions

Soh Kam Yung reviewed Paths & Portals by Gene Luen Yang (Secret coders ; bk. 2)

An interesting book on programming.

4 stars

The second book in the series, this one starts off where the first one left off, with the kids faced with a programming challenge. When they succeed, they learn more about the history of the school and that the janitor is not just a janitor but a hidden programmer and creator.

But things take a sinister turn when Hopper uses a robot to complete her homework, leading the sinister school principal to become interested in her activities. He then gets the school rugby team to ambush her and her fellow coders and, later, the janitor. Once again, the book ends on a cliffhanger and the challenge is for you to help them save the janitor.

Picking up programming where it was left off in the first book, the reader is now introduced to additional programming concepts, like variable assignments. The book challenges the reader to complete the programming …

The second book in the series, this one starts off where the first one left off, with the kids faced with a programming challenge. When they succeed, they learn more about the history of the school and that the janitor is not just a janitor but a hidden programmer and creator.

But things take a sinister turn when Hopper uses a robot to complete her homework, leading the sinister school principal to become interested in her activities. He then gets the school rugby team to ambush her and her fellow coders and, later, the janitor. Once again, the book ends on a cliffhanger and the challenge is for you to help them save the janitor.

Picking up programming where it was left off in the first book, the reader is now introduced to additional programming concepts, like variable assignments. The book challenges the reader to complete the programming examples before finding out how Hopper does it, even if it is not done in quite the same way.

Another interesting book on programming. Looking forward to what the Secret Coders get up to in the next book in the series.