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Mobile CSP French version

Karen — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:27:46 +0000

French adaptation of the Mobile CSP website

Resource URL:

Informatique nomade : Mobile CSP

Grade Level:

9-12
Undergraduate

Difficulty Level:

Intermediate

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Curriculum

Developing Android Apps with App Inventor (Coursera)

hedge — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 19:07:39 +0000

Developing Android Apps with App Inventor is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) offered by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to give students hands-on experience in developing Android applications. The free online course is intended for teachers who are interested in teaching computational thinking with App Inventor, and for anyone who would like to learn basic programming skills. It provides many interesting hands-on examples, including simple games and practical tools, to make programming fun and easy even for beginners without any prior programming experience.

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Developing Android Apps with App Inventor (Coursera)

Grade Level:

9-12
Undergraduate
Master's and Above

Difficulty Level:

Basic

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Curriculum

AppInventor Concept:

Button

Mobile Computer Science Principles Course

shay — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 21:14:30 +0000

Mobile Computer Science Principles (Mobile CSP) is an endorsed provider of the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) curriculum and professional development. Students learn computer science by building socially useful mobile apps. In addition to programming and computer science principles, the course is project-based and emphasizes writing, communication, collaboration, and creativity. A complete set of free, openly licensed, Mobile CSP curricular and instructional materials are available online.

Developed and piloted at Trinity College, Mobile CSP is now also partnered with the College of St. Scholastica. Both are funded by the National Science Foundation.

Since 2013 the Mobile CSP project has provided professional development to more than 400 teachers throughout the U.S. and reached more than 6,000 students. For 2017-18, there are more than 600 teachers and 10,000 students using the Mobile CSP curriculum.

The Mobile Computer Science Principles course (Mobile CSP) satisfies all requirements of the College Board's new AP Computer Science Principles course, which has been designed to help broaden participation in computer science among high school girls and underrepresented minorities.

The Mobile CSP course uses the visual programming language, MIT App Inventor, to provide a rigorous, programming-based introduction to computer science using a project-based curriculum. Students learn computer science by building socially useful mobile apps. In this way, student learning will be associated closely with their interests and grounded in their schools, their homes, and their communities.

Resource URL:

http://mobile-csp.org/

Grade Level:

9-12
Undergraduate

Difficulty Level:

Basic
Intermediate

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Curriculum

App Inventor Maker Cards: Quick Start Guides

shay — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:09:05 +0000

This set of cards can be used in a workshop or a "Maker Faire" type of event. They give quick tidbits of code for building mini-apps with App Inventor. Use them in exhibits, parent nights, STEM fairs, after-school clubs, or anywhere that you need to get people jump-started using App Inventor.

Download Maker Cards Now (PDF)

Grade Level:

6-8
9-12
Undergraduate
Master's and Above

Difficulty Level:

Basic

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Curriculum
Tool
Tutorial

Making Mobile Apps (6.S192, Spring 2015) Hal Abelson, MIT

shay — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:49:13 +0000

The goal of this project is to provide a foundation for mobile app creation. In the first part of the course, you'll use MIT App Inventor, a development platform that makes it easy to build apps with a drag-and-drop interface. You'll start the semester by immediately creating projects based on your own original apps. Class discussions will focus on what kinds of apps are worth making and how to create projects that have social and economic value. Once you've gotten experience building apps, you'll switch to full-scale app development with Android Studio, Java and the Android SDK, starting with the Udacity online video course Developing Android Apps. With this behind you, you'll have the tools to create rapid prototypes, assess their potential value, and flesh out these prototypes to create apps of professional quality.

Resource URL:

Course Website

Grade Level:

Undergraduate

Difficulty Level:

Advanced

Subject:

Computer Science
Entrepreneurship

Resource Type:

Curriculum

Computing, Mobile Apps, and the Web (CS 107) David Wolber, USF

shay — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:45:37 +0000

Taught by Professor David Wolber at the University of San Francisco, this course offers an introduction to computer science for nonmajors with little prior programming experience. Students develop programs using visual and highlevel programming languages to control robots, create animated simulations, and build Internet and general applications. In addition, students are exposed to an overview of computing and its influence on modern society.

Resource URL:

Course Website

Grade Level:

9-12
Undergraduate

Difficulty Level:

Basic
Intermediate

Subject:

Computer Science
Entrepreneurship

Resource Type:

Curriculum

App Inventor Concept Cards

joanie — Wed, 29 May 2013 19:37:01 +0000

App Inventor Concept Cards provide a quick way to learn new App Inventor code and concepts. Each of the cards can be printed out, folded in half, and used to prompt students to explore a concept in App Inventor such as timers, sounds, movement, math, multi screens, making colors, etc. These cards are designed to introduce ideas to students in bite-sized snippets and can be worked into any lesson or tutorial.

You may download all of the cards at once in one PDF file. These cards are available for both App Inventor 2 and App Inventor Classic. Scroll down for Classic. If you don't know which one you need, take the AI2 version.

App Inventor Concept Cards FOR APP INVENTOR 2

Download ALL AI2 CARDS in one PDF

App Inventor Concept Cards FOR APP INVENTOR CLASSIC

Download ALL AI Classic CARDS in one PDF

If you're interested in making your own Concept Cards, download the template as a word document or png image. Please share your cards with us! You can send them as an email to aiwebreview [at] mit [dot] edu.

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App Inventor Concept Cards Multipage PDF

Grade Level:

6-8
9-12
Undergraduate

Difficulty Level:

Basic

Subject:

Math
Science
Computer Science

Resource Type:

Curriculum
Tutorial

AppInventor Concept:

SpeechRecognizer
OrientationSensor
Animation Components
Button
Canvas

Dutch App Inventor Curriculum

shay — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:45:24 +0000

Eindhoven University of Technology graduate students Robin Eggenkamp, Coen Crombach and François Vonk developed these course materials for App Inventor. The materials are in Dutch and targeted at high schools. The materials are shared under a Creative Commons license on Github: http://appinventor.informatica.nu. The authors invite feedback, as they continue to develop the materials while using them in their own classes.

Resource URL:

Dutch App Inventor Curriculum

Grade Level:

9-12

Difficulty Level:

Basic

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Curriculum

CS Principles for High School Teachers (Scratch + App Inventor)

shay — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:24:36 +0000

This 4-week summer graduate course "CS Principles For High School Teachers" was offered during the summer of 2012 to math teachers enrolled in John Carroll University's graduate program. The course material is available online.
Professor Linda Seiter writes: "We spent the first week on Scratch and the remaining 3 weeks covered App Inventor. The final project required each teacher to develop a lesson in either Scratch or App Inventor that they would potentially use to help them teach a math/computing topic to their high school students. Links to their lessons can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/jcu.edu/mt513/project/student-project-links They each got to teach their lesson in class the last week of the course."

Resource URL:

MT 513 Scratch and App Inventor Course for Teachers

Grade Level:

Master's and Above

Difficulty Level:

Advanced

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Curriculum

Introduction to Software Application Development with App Inventor and Python

shay — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:09:37 +0000

Professors Linda Seiter and Victor Lee developed this introductory computer science for students at John Carroll University. The course starts with App Inventor and then transitions to Python.

"The course web site has the daily lessons, weekly 2 hour labs that occur outside of lecture, and the homework assignments to date. We use App Inventor for the first half of the cs128 course. In the past we would switch to Java mid-semester. This year we will be experimenting with teaching Python rather than Java for the second half of the course." -- Linda Seiter

Resource URL:

Go to the course website to view the syllabus (lessons, labs, and homework assignments)

Grade Level:

Undergraduate

Difficulty Level:

Basic
Intermediate

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Curriculum