LoveReading4Kids Says
Supremely clear and authoritative, this official guide from MIT App Inventor demystifies the app creation process to present an accessible, how-to handbook that’ll help youngsters get their head around making their own apps. Best of all, no prior experience is necessary — anyone can follow the instructions to get set-up, get going, get testing and, ultimately, download their creations to share with friends.
With a motivational forward by Gitanjali Rao, Time magazine’s 2020 Kid of the Year, who extolls the fun and practicality of using MIT App Inventor, the book takes readers through each stage of the process, with every detail, term and step explained and shown through clear diagrams and screen mock-ups.
Along the way, the guide talks through creating a translation app, a piano app, a maze game, a tour guide app, and a chat app. In addition, the book is peppered with inspiring profiles of app inventors from around the world, young people whose stories reveal what’s possible, from the Moldovan school girls who invented an app that prevents the spread of hepatitis A, to Arjun, who created a school bus locator app when he was just eleven.
100% user-friendly and comprehensive, Become an App Inventor is a must-have for home inventors and school libraries alike.
Joanne Owen
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Become an App Inventor: The Official Guide from MIT App Inventor Synopsis
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!
About This Edition
About Karen Lang, Selim Tezel, MIT App Inventor Project, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Karen Lang (pictured) 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.
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