"Coding After 50: Programming Fundamentals, Using AI"

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ARC applications are open through November 7, 2026. Publication remains November 8, 2026. Approved readers may complete their reading and submit an honest review after publication; November 7 is the application deadline, not a review-completion deadline. Review-copy requests are subject to approval. No payment or reward is offered for reviews. You are not too old for this. That's not reassurance — it's backed by research: Codecademy reports that roughly one million of its forty-five million users are fifty-five or older, and a peer-reviewed study of 500+ adults learning to program in their sixties, seventies, and eighties found the same thing again and again — curiosity, unfinished business, and the simple desire to finally understand what's happening behind the screen, not career pressure. Coding After 50 is written for that reader: someone with a full life already, no time for material that assumes too much, and no interest in turning this into a bootcamp. Across twelve chapters, it walks through what a computer is actually doing, the core building blocks of programming — variables, sequence, conditionals, loops, and functions — how to read code without fear, and, crucially, how to work with AI tools: understanding what they're doing when they write code for you, how to direct them well, how to catch their mistakes, and how to fix things when something breaks. No jargon. No age limit. Just a clear, honest path in — and the first step toward Book 2.