Wednesday 25 March 2015

Last App Inventor lesson

Last lesson on App Inventor


You need to spend the first 40 mins of the lesson working on trying to develop your app further.  Use the hints from the previous 2 blog posts here if you've forgotten what you're doing.

For the last 20 mins of the lesson, you need to screenshot your work and paste to a Google doc titled the same as this blog post.  Under each screenshot you need to write notes explaining the additions you've made to your app programming and what you would expect to happen if it was being used.

Under this, you need to put a sub-heading 'Evaluation' and write at least one sentence on each of the following points:


  • Any good points about using App Inventor to create an app

  • Any bad points about it

  • Anything you have learned in this unit

  • Any improvements/developments to you app that you would have liked to have done if you'd had more time or devices.
Share correctly and paste the link to a new Blog post titled the same and Publish!

Friday 20 March 2015

App inventor lesson 2

For this lesson, you need to work in the same groups as last time and continue to try and develop your app from last lesson.

See my blog post before this one for further details of how to look for programming hints and how to show me the work you've done.  I need to see evidence on your blog of the work you've done this lesson and the one before.

I'll be marking blogs next week.

Homework reminder! 
- it's due in at the end of today.  I told you about it 2 or so weeks ago.  Details on the Learning Computing website - Unit 9 creating an app - look for the grey bar titled 'Homework' on the home screen after you've opened up that unit


Wednesday 11 March 2015

You've designed the app, now build it!

Now you need to start building your app!

1.  Go to the MIT App Inventor at the link here.......   http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/

2.  Click on the Create! button and start to build your programming.  Use the MIT tutorials to help you - link here.....
http://explore.appinventor.mit.edu/ai2/tutorials

3.  You will need to then click 'Start a new project' in the top left of your screen.

4.  15 mins before the end of the lesson you need to save your project - Click on 'Projects' and then 'Save project'.

5.  Take a screen shot of your program so far (press Prt Scn button on right of F12 on desktop keyboards, or press Ctrl and the button with lots of overlapping rectangles on Chrome book, then bottom right 'Copy to Clipboard').

6.  Open a Google doc, title it 'App program' and Ctrl V your screenshot to it.  

7.  Under your screen shot, explain what you have done so far and what should happen with your program so far (ie what and how it works).

8.  Share this correctly - Click Advanced and then change it from Private to Anyone with the Link.  Copy/paste the web link (URL) to a new Blog post for this lesson called 'Programming the App #1'.

9.  Click Publish.

Reminder - homework to be done by 20th March!!!!!!

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Designing your app

Here are your tasks in the correct order for your work on app design

1.  On Learning Computing website, go to Unit 9 and then lesson 2.

2.  Click on the link to 'Official MIT App Inventor tutorials'.

3.  Choose a "style" of app that you want to create from the examples given and either watch the video or read through the pdf docs.

4.  Open a new internet tab and go to lesson 3 and make a copy of Activity 1 'Blank Design Sheet'.

5.  Complete this sheet, giving as much detail as possible about your app - target audience, why people would want to have it, purpose of the app, etc.

6.  Open a third new internet tab and open your Comp Sci blog.

7.  Share your Design sheet correctly (Advanced - Anyone with the link) and copy/paste the link to a new post called 'App Design Work'.

8.  Click Publish.