Start with high-confidence programming books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Girl Code
Andrea Gonzales, Sophie Houser
Esports: the Ultimate Gamer's Guide
Mike Stubbs
The Computer Always Wins
Elliot Lichtman
Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer
Emily Arnold McCully
Adventures in Python
Craig Richardson
Game On!
Dustin Hansen
Coding Projects in Scratch
Jon Woodcock
Become an App Inventor: the Official Guide From MIT App Inventor
Karen Lang, MIT App Inventor Project
Learn to Program With Small Basic
Majed Marji, Ed Price
Mission Python
Sean McManus
Scratch 3 Programming Playground
Al Sweigart
The Big Book of Small Python Projects
Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code
Corinne Purtill
