A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Coder (Computer Programmer). Inside: 37 scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 19-word kid-friendly glossary, seven hands-on activities, seven extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and health and wellness), and standards alignment with CSTA, NGSS, Common Core, and the C3 Framework. Every activity runs unplugged, on paper — a class with no computers at all can do the full set, and no project requires a computer at home. Designed to flex from a single-week unit to a longer computer-science-and-writing integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year, with the naming activity fitting a vocabulary unit and the README project any technical writing unit. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the comma that breaks the spell and the debugger that finds it, the hundred failed runs and the hundred-and-first, the day of hard work that leaves nothing visible to show for it, and an algorithm written in 1843 that waited a hundred years for a machine that could run it. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on uneven access to computers at home, on failure and self-worth, and on the history behind why a field first programmed largely by women looks different now.