Become an App Inventor: The Official Guide from MIT App Inventor
Your Guide to Designing, Building, and Sharing Apps
Published on 3. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-5295-0483-5 (ISBN)
Description
DESIGN, BUILD AND SHARE YOUR OWN APPS - NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!
Design, build and share your own apps with the official guide from MIT App Inventor. Follow simple step-by-step instructions for six different projects using MIT's free App Inventor website, and you can make a maze game, a translation game and even a personalized chat app! Use what you've learned to come up with your own ideas, then download your new apps to a phone or table, and share them with friends!
Along the way, you'll hear stories of young app inventors from all over the world, who are using MIT App Inventor to create amazing apps that solve real-life problems. Learn, invent and change the world!
Design, build and share your own apps with the official guide from MIT App Inventor. Follow simple step-by-step instructions for six different projects using MIT's free App Inventor website, and you can make a maze game, a translation game and even a personalized chat app! Use what you've learned to come up with your own ideas, then download your new apps to a phone or table, and share them with friends!
Along the way, you'll hear stories of young app inventors from all over the world, who are using MIT App Inventor to create amazing apps that solve real-life problems. Learn, invent and change the world!
Reviews / Votes
Perfect for the stockings of STEM minded kids! * MIT Kids Press Christmas Gift Guide, Bookbairn * 100% user-friendly and comprehensive, Become an App Inventor is a must-have for home inventors and school libraries alike. * LoveReading4Kids *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 12 years
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
648 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5295-0483-5 (9781529504835)
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Karen Lang worked for several years as a software engineer before deciding education was her true calling. She spent twenty years teaching computer science, and has worked as education manager for MIT App Inventor since 2015, developing tutorials and curriculum and doing outreach to teachers and students. For five years, she also served on the board of directors for the Computer Science Teachers Association.
Selim Tezel joined the App Inventor team in 2018 as a curriculum developer. A former mathematics teacher with over twenty years of international teaching experience, he enjoys exploring intersections of technology and playful constructionist pedagogies in the classroom. Recently he worked as a curriculum designer at the Education Development Center, which aims to make computer science accessible and enjoyable for a diverse population of students.
MIT App Inventor, which boasts approximately a million users a month, is a major research project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Selim Tezel joined the App Inventor team in 2018 as a curriculum developer. A former mathematics teacher with over twenty years of international teaching experience, he enjoys exploring intersections of technology and playful constructionist pedagogies in the classroom. Recently he worked as a curriculum designer at the Education Development Center, which aims to make computer science accessible and enjoyable for a diverse population of students.
MIT App Inventor, which boasts approximately a million users a month, is a major research project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.