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I Love My Smartphone: Mobile App Development This curriculum is part of a new series of Computer Science curricula for the Scottish education system. Aimed at students in middle and high school, this material provides a course in programming for mobile devices, and it explores new paradigms in Computing such as mobile technologies and new interfaces, whilst providing ample opportunity for inter-disciplinary linkage. Exercises are provided with sample answers and there are many additional activities which can be used to both broaden and deepen the topic. The materials offer suggestions for fostering computational thinking and making learning more engaging for students. |
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App Inventor Code Snippets from Pura Vida This page lists useful code snippets and examples for App Inventor, such as how to insert a row into a Google Spreadsheet, how to share data between two apps, how to download data from a web page, |
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App Inventor Training for the Kentucky Academy of Technology Education In response to interest in App Inventor from Kentucky’s Students Technology Leadership Program, the Kentucky Academy of Technology Education (KATE) hosted two, two day, App Inventor trainings. |
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Android Apps with App Inventor: The Fast and Easy Way to Build Android Apps by Jörg H. Kloss With App Inventor, a free visual development system, practically anyone can create robust, modern apps for today’s newest Android smartphones and tablets without any use of Java. |
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App Inventor for Android: Build Your Own Apps, No Experience Required Even with limited programming experience, you can easily learn to create apps for the Android platform with this complete guide to App Inventor for Android. |
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Google App Inventor: Beginner's Guide Create powerful Android apps the easy all-visual way with Google App Inventor using this book and eBook. All the basics of App Inventor in plain English with lots of illustrations. |
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App Inventor Video Tutorials for Beginners While building several apps, these video tutorials, created by Krishnendu Roy, a CS faculty member at Valdosta State University, will teach you the basic parts of App Inventor. |
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Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab: An Emerging Curriculum We are Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab, a 2010 winner of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning global competition. |
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Inventing Mobile Apps, Taught by Lyn Turbak at Wellesley College This course teaches how to create apps for mobile devices as a vehicle for learning big ideas of computer science, engineering, and entrepreneurship and explore technology's impact on society. |
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Computing with Mobile Phones, Taught by Ralph Morelli at Trinity College In this course, students learned how to access the world of mobile services and applications as creators, not just consumers. They will learn to create entertaining and socially useful apps that can be shared with friends and family. In addition to learning to program and how to become better problem solvers, students will also explore the exciting world of computer science from the perspective of mobile computing and its increasingly important effect on society. This course is similar to and borrows from Dave Wolber’s course. Lectures and homework assignments are mapped to the App Inventor book. Students maintain portfolios of their work. In addition, it is one of several CS Principles pilot courses and maps the course materials to the CS Principles curriculum. |
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Building Mobile Applications, Taught by Hal Abelson at MIT Three years ago, it was rare for non-professionals to implement mobile applications. Even two years ago, building a working app was an intensive semester-long project. |
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App Inventor Course in a Box: Modular Intro CS course by David Wolber (USF) Teaching a course on App Inventor? This site provides a framework for doing so. David Wolber from the University of San Francisco has taught introductory CS for non-majors (CS0), but the materials could be adapted for a CS1 course for majors as well, or for a high school course. You can also pick and choose from the seven available modules, or just give a two or three week intro to App Inventor with the introductory modules. |
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App Inventor: Create Your Own Android Apps This extraordinary book now available in free PDF format online) introduces App Inventor for Android, a powerful visual tool that lets anyone build apps for Android-based devices. |
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Using App Inventor to Teach Introductory CS App Inventor is a great tool to teach programming to high school students. Google Intern, Michelle Hutton, created this 6 week curriculum. |
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