MIT App Inventor

Estimated duration: 24 hours: 6 modules, 20 lessons of ≈ 60 min + capstone

What you will learn

• Use the Designer and Blocks editors, test on a device with the Companion, and save/export projects
• Design screens with arrangements, images, sounds, text boxes and notifications
• Use variables, conditions, math and random numbers to make apps decide and calculate
• Draw on a Canvas and animate sprites with the Clock, including collisions and scoring
• Store lists and data (ListView, TinyDB), use phone sensors and speech, and organise blocks into procedures and screens
• Plan, build, test and present an app of their own idea

Who it is for: children and young teens who want to build apps for their phones; their guardians

Prerequisites: none; Scratch experience helps; an Android phone or tablet (or the emulator) for testing