Free download Learn to Program with App Inventor: A Visual Introduction to Building Apps by Lyra Blizzard Logan. Published by No Starch Press. English | 200 Pages | EPUB | ISBN: 159327968X
Description of Learn to Program with App Inventor
Technology influences all aspects of our lives, and computing jobs and opportunities abound. It’s more important than ever for everyone to understand how computers work.
It’s especially important that kids, including those from underrepresented groups, know that they have the ability to write software, study computer science, or become computer programmers if they so choose.
In this book, you’ll learn how to make useful and exciting mobile software—apps for phones and tablets—with App Inventor, while exploring key programming concepts along the way.
We’ll create apps that send text messages, recognize speech, access a phone’s list of contacts, sense the phone’s location, operate the camera and camcorder, solve math problems, play video and sound, animate graphics, turn text into speech, and even respond to touch and let users draw on the screen.
Many young people around the world are using App Inventor to create apps like these to positively impact their communities. Kids in California developed an app that allows users to record and report graffiti and organize clean-up events.
North Dakota middle school students created an app to encourage more recycling in their community. Middle school girls in Texas designed an app that uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) to guide visually impaired students around their school.
Teens in Nigeria built an app that uses location sensing to help traffic cops catch offenders. Young women in Europe designed a crowdsourcing app to help residents find safe drinking water.
A middle school boy in India developed an app to help parents locate their child’s school bus and check if their child is on the bus. The possibilities for creative problem solving are endless.