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Designing and Playing with AppInventor! Apps are designed and created by people just like you. We will spend the week building some simple apps to discover basic ideas about how to design an interface, how to ask the user for information, and how to make the app interact with the user. The platform we will use has a "blocky" feel to it like Scratch, and we will focus on logic and how to input, manipulate, and use data to create 2-3 interactive apps that you can modify and play with after the week is over. Apps we will build include games like "Whack a Mole" and others geared towards the age range of the campers. We will be designing apps using AppInventor developed by MIT that allows you to create apps without needing to know how to code. Each camper will need to get a Google account in order to use the platform on the laptop provided by Newton's Attic, but they will also need a device such as a smartphone or a wireless connected tablet.
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