Thursday, May 10, 2012

MIT App Inventor

MIT App Inventor
The computer club meets every Monday after school in the Learning Center. Right now we are creating apps for Android devices. All you need to get started with MIT App Inventor is a Google account to log in, which all Mepham students already have.

According to the MIT App Inventor homepage, "Creating an App Inventor app begins in your browser, where you design how the app will look. Then, like fitting together puzzle pieces, you set your app's behavior. All the while, through a live connection between your computer and your phone, your app appears on your phone.You can build many different types of apps with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like MoleMash or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud. To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a professional developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior."

If you are interested in joining, please see Ms. Stack in the library and she'll get you started.

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