Workshop App Inventor - PDW Braga

1. Marco Neves
Braga, 5th-7th May - 2016
PDW Coding and Robotics – The Future is Now!
App Inventor - Workshop

2. Marco Neves
● Science Computer Teacher at Agrupamento de Escolas
da Batalha - Portugal
● An eTwinner  (Master Thesis about the “Impact of
eTwinning in Portuguese Schools)
● Member of the Google Earth Outreach Trainers Group
● Teacher Trainer (LE – Creating Apps for eTwinning
Projects)
Who Am I? 2
Twitter: @mbrasneves
Facebook: facebook.com/marco.bras.neves
Email: mbrasneves@gmail.com

3. ● …gain a deeper and more complete understanding of
the logic;
● …advanced thinking behind programming;
● …integral thinking and problem solving skills that
will be valuable for learning;
● …millions of computing jobs will go unfilled;
● …highly valued technology skills will have the
opportunity to work in any field they want;
Why Coding? 3

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5. ● Scratch - https://scratch.mit.edu/
● Code.org - https://code.org/educate
● Touch Develop - https://www.touchdevelop.com/
● Tynker - https://www.tynker.com/
● AppLab - https://code.org/educate/applab
● App Inventor – http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/
● … and they are free.
Tools for Coding… 5

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7. ● Is an open-source web application (Google - MIT);
● Allows to create mobile Apps for Android;
● It uses a graphical interface, very similar to Scratch;
● Allows users to drag-and-drop visual objects to
create the code of an App;
● Transforms the complex language of text-based coding
into visual, drag-and-drop building blocks;
● Tutorials:
http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/tutorials.html
7What is App Inventor?

8. ● A “gmail account”;
● A computer with Internet Access;
● An Android device (Phone or Tablet);
● Install the AI2Companion App on your
device;
● No Android device (use the simulator);
● …and some ideas and lots of imagination
and creativity 
8To use App Inventor…..

9. Magic Trick
9Hands On (1/3)
bit.ly/pdwbraga

10. Magic Trick 2
10Hands On (2/3)
bit.ly/pdwbraga

11. A quiz…..
11Hands On (3/3)
bit.ly/pdwbraga

12. Questions?
mbrasneves@gmail.com