i love middle grade and graphic novels. when i saw the cover, i instantly knew that i would enjoy this and i wasn't wrong! this was so adorable! this was very colorful and an interesting way to know more about coding for my young brother. most of the things went over my head, but my little brother enjoyed it a lot!

This graphic novel sets out to teach kids how to code. How to think like a robot would think. An old tech robot has been wreaking havoc all over the town. It will take a technomancer to get him working right, and one girl to ask a million questions that leads to a small robot revolt. The author does a great job of drawing comparison to this advanced civilizations “eggs” and modern smartphones. It includes lessons on jailbreaking, not how to do it, but why it’s good and why it’s bad. It gets into privacy violations, and when is a good time, and not a good time to share everything with friends and strangers. The artwork is like an acid trip: full of colors and strang creations. Overall this was a fun read, but it can get a little bogged down when it talks in code.
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This graphic novel is just as colorful and fun as the cover would lead you to believe. Debian Pearl uses digital coding to save the life of a Ray-Bot along with a new sidekick, Digits. I will say that all of the coding jargon went straight over my head. I found the story and dialogue to be very scienc-y, and I am not a scienc-y person. However it was still a really fun adventure, and I loved the ending and the setup for (hopefully) more books in the series.

Review to come in August on my blog, and late August on Goodreads.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

I just lost my entire review due to a power outage (I am writing these reviews generally first in Goodreads), and I am not too eager to start writing all that again. So I will just keep it short.

Loved the word Technomancer, I guess I got to remember that. It would be a nice word to use for my magical husband who can do all sorts of magical stuff with computers.

I loved that Debian Perl (love her name, so fitting) had an apartment full of plants, full of life. In a world full of technology and robots it was so lovely to see something else.

I had a laugh when he thought our technomancer was putting a mother in a robot, no dude, motherboard. Thankfully she patiently explains everything there is to the whole thing + even more. He is eager to learn and eager to start coding and I just loved seeing the code pop up and her explaining things to him. So proud of him to finally be able to code the robot to do a sandwich right (I remember that experiment from other things).
Plus, there is plenty of other fun coding stuff happening and I was soaking it up. I know before I met my hubbie I was already trying out some smaller stuff (HTML, making pictures work correctly on a website, etc.), though after I met him and saw him code all the amazing stuff I have been wanting to learn too. But I never got into it. There are tutorials but they are so boring, the books are fun, but I would like someone to teach me it. My hubbie is too busy, and the courses for teaching coding/programming in the library are always for kids. :|
So this book was definitely fun, at least for a while, in the end it just got a bit bland. Same-ish. Plus, I got a bit lost of the plot. Was this about a robot and finding his home and of course who stole his memory or was this about coding and teaching someone how robots work? It just didn't mesh right. Plus, I did think it was a bit silly to see them shout out code. I could understand if you want to program a bot, but to just hold a whole conversation in code? Eh.

I was surprised the key chain was that (Star Wars much?), but it was also very emotional. Though sorry, I just couldn't help but laugh when he had jello-like tears just flowing out of him. It was just too silly and hilarious.

I wasn't a fan of the science woman. She was your typical villain type. :P

The art was superfun and colourful, but I don't know... it was really overpowering for me. There were just too many colours, too much things happening that I got overwhelmed and I even got a headache.

I did like the last part with the questions/answers and the glossary. Nice addition.

But yeah, all in all, while nice in some parts it just wasn't my book. Maybe I am just not meant to try out coding any further. So far all the fun coding books had the same problem. They try to mesh coding and story together and I haven't found one where it meshes well. Always it feels like there are two things going on. But I am sure there is an audience somewhere that will enjoy this and other books like it.

Was not sure what this book was when I requested it and ended up absolutely loving it. The pictures are bright and engaging although a bit busy at times. The huge factor is all the knowledge portrayed in the story on coding, moral responsibilities, and botany. Would love to pass this book on to my eight year old!