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Learn to build mobile apps for Android/iOS devices with MIT App Inventor, a visual drag-and-drop programming language like Scratch.

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Lyra Blizzard Logan is a certified JavaScript and Database Design Specialist, and holds graduate certificates in Instructional Technology- Web Design, and in Online Teaching and Learning. She earned her B.A. from Fisk University and J.D. from Harvard. Currently, Logan is Executive Vice President & General Counsel of the Florida Education Fund (FEF), a non-profit that creates and implements educational programs for underrepresented groups. In addition, Logan directs FEF's pre-college programs, which include after school and summer STEM camps for middle and high school students in Florida.

Reviews

"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