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Chinese App Inventor Site

shay — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:10:59 +0000

A group of App Inventor fans in China came together and created the site, www.appinventor.com.cn, in 2010. The founders strongly believe App Inventor has unlimited possibilities and bright future. They want to share App Inventor with the people in China by using this website as a local hub. The site has many App Inventor resources, especially the online video tutorials which have three seasons and more than 70 videos. There is also a technical discussion forum and the Tencent QQ group for App Inventor users at all levels. Currently, they have more than 400 active members in the group, many of whom are educators from high schools and universities. Many members have gone beyond their active involvement in the group and have started App Inventor classes in their own schools.

Resource URL:

http://www.appinventor.com.cn

Grade Level:

6-8
9-12
Undergraduate
Master's and Above

Difficulty Level:

Basic

Subject:

Computer Science
Entrepreneurship

Resource Type:

Tutorial
Other

Magic 8-ball & PaintPot Slides

joanie — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:46:02 +0000

MIT Students Tony Chen, Mitchell Kates, and Marcus Lowe created these slides for an App Inventor hackathon at a local community center. These slides include great images, descriptions, and helpful gifs.

Magic 8-Ball: Link to Google Slides
PaintPot: Link to Google Slides

Grade Level:

6-8
9-12

Difficulty Level:

Basic

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Tutorial
Workshop

App Inventor Concept Cards

joanie — Wed, 29 May 2013 19:37:01 +0000

App Inventor Concept Cards provide a quick way to learn new App Inventor code and concepts. Each of the cards can be printed out, folded in half, and used to prompt students to explore a concept in App Inventor such as timers, sounds, movement, math, multi screens, making colors, etc. These cards are designed to introduce ideas to students in bite-sized snippets and can be worked into any lesson or tutorial.

You may download all of the cards at once in the multi-page pdf.

Individual Cards:

If you're interested in making your own Concept Cards, download the template as a word document or png image. Please share your cards with us! You can send them as an email to aiwebreview [at] mit [dot] edu.

Resource URL:

App Inventor Concept Cards Multipage PDF

Grade Level:

Difficulty Level:

Basic

Subject:

Math
Science
Computer Science

Resource Type:

Curriculum
Tutorial

AppInventor Concept:

SpeechRecognizer
OrientationSensor
Animation Components
Button
Canvas

Visual Pong Tutorial

joanie — Tue, 28 May 2013 01:55:25 +0000

Pong is a simple game controlled by the user and a ball. The ball bounces off the paddle and three walls. If the ball bounces on the paddle, the user gains points. As soon as the ball falls beyond the paddle, the game is over. Pearl Phaovisaid created a visual tutorial to go along with the Pong tutorial on the site. This tutorial can be downloaded, printed out and then used as a guide to help the user create the Pong app without having to switch between screens.

Files:

Pong 5a_13.pdf

Grade Level:

6-8
9-12

Difficulty Level:

Basic

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Tutorial

App Inventor Code Snippets from Pura Vida

Sat, 12 May 2012 13:40:46 +0000

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, and other advanced features.

Resource URL:

http://puravidaapps.com/snippets.php

Grade Level:

6-8
9-12
Undergraduate
Master's and Above

Difficulty Level:

Basic
Intermediate
Advanced

Subject:

Computer Science
Entrepreneurship

Resource Type:

Tutorial

AppInventor Concept:

TinyDB
TinyWebDB
TextToSpeech
TextBox
Social Components
SpeechRecognizer
Web
Screen Arrangement
OrientationSensor
BluetoothClient
BluetoothServer
BarcodeScanner
Animation Components
ActivityStarter
Button
Canvas
Media Components
Notifier
LocationSensor
ListPicker
Lego Mindstorm
AccelerometerSensor

Mobile Computing Concept:

Location-Aware Apps
Social Apps
Data Sharing Apps
Sensor Apps