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By Lyra Blizzard Logan
Learn to Program with App Inventor will teach you how to build mobile apps for Android devices with MIT App Inventor, a visual drag-and-drop programming language like Scratch.
Download Chapter 3: Fruit Loot: Creating a Simple Animated Game
Build a mobile phone app!
You’ve swiped and tapped your way through countless apps, but have you ever created one? Now you can, thanks to Learn to Program with App Inventor. In less than an hour, you’ll be able to build and run your first app!
App Inventor is a free software for making Android apps. All you need is a PC with an Internet connection to build your app, and a mobile phone for testing. You’ll use a simple drag-and-drop interface, which minimizes errors and avoids too much typing.
A certified App Inventor Master Trainer, Logan breaks down each project into logical steps, lists the components you’ll need, and then shows you how to create screen designs, control program flow with conditionals and loops, and store data in variables and lists. Once you’ve tested the app on your phone, you can test what you learned with challenges at the end of each chapter.
You’ll build cool apps like:
Join the 10 million people who have tried App Inventor, and make the journey from app user to app inventor.
November 2019, 200 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781593279684
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Hi, World!: Building Your First App
Chapter 2 – Practice Makes Perfect: Event-Driven Programming
Chapter 3 – Fruit Loot: Creating a Simple Animated Game
Chapter 4 – Multiplication Station: Making Decisions with Code
Chapter 5 – Beat the Bus: Tracking Location with Maps and Sensors
Chapter 6 – Tic Tac Toe: Using Loops to Create a Game
Chapter 7 – Multiplication Station 2: Reusing Code with Procedures
Chapter 8 – Virtual Shades: Drawing and Dragging Images
Appendix – App Inventor Components and Built-In Blocks
To test the Hi, World! app in Chapter 1, download the MIT AI2 Companion app directly from MIT App Inventor or by scanning the QR code found at the Help>Companion Information menu.
“The perfect DIY instruction manual and guide for creating apps, Learn To Program With App Inventor is an ideal and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, highschool, college, and university library Computer Science & Technology collections.”
—Midwest Book Review
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