Secret Coders

Gene Luen Yang wrote the Secret Coders books to help teach young people about coding and computer programming in an accessible way. What is a topic that you are an expert on that you could teach about by making a comic or graphic novel? Explain what you would teach and how you would teach it within this format.

Secret Coders opens with a page that is completely black, except for several text boxes that say, “Listen. I’m going to tell you a story—a story about me. But I’m telling you so that you’ll remember—remember about you” (3). Is the speaker Hopper, Yang, or both?

At first, Hopper does not like her new school and has trouble making friends. How does her natural curiosity and personality ultimately help her in making friends?