
Become an App Inventor: the Official Guide From MIT App Inventor
Your Guide to Designing, Building, and Sharing Apps
Candlewick Press · Print & ebook · February 8, 2022
With a foreword by Gitanjali Rao, Time Magazine’s inaugural Kid of the Year, this engaging guide from MITeen Press teaches anyone to design and publish their own apps—no experience necessary!—and introduces young app creators from around the world.
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- Who it’s for
- Learn to build apps with MIT App Inventor, from a working piano to community-minded projects.
- Themes
- Mobile app creation, Beginner-friendly coding, Technology for community impact
- Genres
- Programming, Inventions & Inventors
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With a foreword by Gitanjali Rao, Time Magazine’s inaugural Kid of the Year, this engaging guide from MITeen Press teaches anyone to design and publish their own apps—no experience necessary!—and introduces young app creators from around the world. Have you ever wanted to build your own mobile apps? App Inventor, a free and revolutionary online program from MIT, lets you do just that.
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With the help of this companion guide chock-full of colorful graphics and easy-to-follow instructions, readers can learn how to create six different apps, including a working piano, a maze game, and even their own chat app to communicate with friends—then use what they’ve learned to build apps of their own imagination. User-friendly code blocks that snap together allow even beginners to quickly create working apps. Readers will also learn about young inventors already using their own apps to make a difference in their communities, such as the girls from Moldova whose app helps alert residents when local well water is contaminated. Or the boys from Malden, Massachusetts, whose app lets users geotag potholes to alert city hall when repairs are needed. With this inspiring guide, curious young dreamers can become real inventors with real-world impact.
MIT App Inventor
Learn to build apps with MIT App Inventor, from a working piano to community-minded projects.
Come here for
- Step-by-step instructions for creating six different apps
- Examples of young inventors using apps in their communities
Expect
- Colorful graphics and code blocks that snap together
- A piano, a maze game, and a chat app
Where it sits
| Programming | 76% |
|---|---|
| Inventions & Inventors | 70% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Games & Entertainment Tech
- Programming
- Inventions & Inventors
- Authors
- Karen Lang, MIT App Inventor Project, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Inte
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- February 8, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Mobile app creation · Beginner-friendly coding · Technology for community impact
- Reading lane
- Games & Entertainment Tech