Have you had an idea for an app and wondered what to do next? With MIT App Inventor, you can take your idea to action - no programming experience required. It gives you building blocks that you snap together like LEGOs to build an app. You can have a basic app ready in under 30 minutes!
About App Inventor:
MIT App Inventor is the result of a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Google. It has 8.2 M users in 195 countries who have built over 34 M apps with it. Just this month has had 890.1 K active users. Applications include Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing.
Examples of apps built include: a pedometer app to count and report daily footsteps; an app to monitor the home garden, detect when plants need watering and irrigate them from anywhere in the world; an app that learns to play rock-paper-scissors using machine learning; the only limit is your imagination!
About the Series:
In Craft with Code, participants learn by doing, growing skill by developing apps of increasing complexity through a series of courses. In each course, I introduce a new app and show you how to build it step by step. In the process, I introduce new software concepts. You will apply the concepts to bring your own ideas to life in the course project. All the code from a course is available to you to download and use in your projects.
You will need a laptop or desktop with a web browser and an Android Phone. I use a MacBook Pro with Opera browser and a Google Pixel phone. You will need a Google account to sign up and sign in. App Inventor runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install to get started developing apps.
About this course:
In the project, you will build an animated game using Canvas and Image Sprites. You will learn essential "How To's" of building animated games, such as: (i) How to lay out the screen with Canvas and Image Sprites (ii) How to animate a touch-sensitive Image Sprite, and (iii) How to set up a timer using a Clock for orchestration. You will then apply these concepts to bring your own ideas to life in a DIY app to uplift and educate.
Credits:
I want to thank Prof. David Wolber who is my inspiration for jumping on-board MIT App Inventor and taking the technology out to others. His Course-in-a-box teaching materials are the foundation on which I built this course. And I want to thank the folks at MIT for this project.
Let's rock and roll.
