📱 App Creators: Kids’ Mobile App Development with MIT App Inventor

📱 Course Title: App Creators: Kids’ Mobile App Development with MIT App Inventor

🆔 Code: 1082-P

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📘 Course Description:

This course introduces children aged 10–15 to the basics of mobile app development using MIT App Inventor, a visual programming environment developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Through hands-on projects, students will learn:

• 💡 Programming fundamentals

• 🎨 User interface (UI) design

• 🤖 Logical thinking

All while creating real, functional Android applications.

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🎯 Learning Objectives:

• 📲 Understand the basics of mobile apps and their daily use

• 🧭 Navigate the MIT App Inventor interface

• 🖌️ Design interactive user interfaces

• 🔗 Create app logic using visual code blocks

• 🧪 Build and test original Android apps

• 👥 Develop teamwork, creativity, and digital problem-solving

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🗂️ Course Outline:

📦 Module 1: Introduction to App Inventor

• ❓ What is MIT App Inventor?

• 📱 Overview of mobile apps

• 🔧 Setting up accounts and test devices

🛠️ Module 2: Getting Started

• 🧭 Explore the interface

• 🧱 Add screens, buttons, labels

• 🔤 Intro to visual block-based coding

🧪 Module 3: Creating Your First App

• 👋 Build a “Hello World” app

• ⚙️ Understand events and actions

📲 Module 4: Interactive Apps

• 📥 Use input: text, touch, sensors

• 🎵 Add sound, images, and animations

• 🔄 Simple logic: if-then, variables

🎉 Module 5: Fun Projects

• 🎨 Create a drawing app

• ❓ Build a quiz app

• 🐶 Design a digital pet or interactive story

🌟 Module 6: Teamwork & App Showcase

• 🤝 Group Project: Invent your own app

• 📢 Present and share your app with classmates

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🧰 Course Materials:

• 💻 Computer or tablet with internet

• 🌐 MIT App Inventor account (appinventor.mit.edu)

• 📱 Android device for testing (recommended)

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📝 Assessment:

• ✅ Completion of individual and group projects

• 💬 Active participation in discussions and activities

• 📱 Presentation and demo of created apps

⏳ Time Frame
6 Modules (typically over 6 to 8 weeks)

Suggested pace: 1 module per week

Each session: 1.5 to 2 hours

Final presentation and showcase in the last session

 

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