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App inventor and real-world motivation

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SIGCSE '11: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1953163.1953329

Published: 09 March 2011 Publication History

Abstract

App Inventor is a visual "blocks" language for creating mobile apps. As part of a Google pilot program, App Inventor was taught to university students in a core curriculum course at the University of San Francisco. This paper introduces App Inventor and the course, focusing on how the language facilitated interactions with the world outside of the classroom.

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App inventor and real-world motivation
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Visual languages

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