Become an App Inventor: The Official Guide from Mit App Inventor: Your Guide to Designing, Building, and Sharing Apps by Lang, Karen

"Have you ever wanted to build your own mobile apps? App Inventor, a free and revolutionary online program from MIT, lets you do just that. With the help of this companion guide, ... readers can learn how to create six different apps, including a working piano, a maze game, and even their own chat app to communicate with friends--then use what they've learned to build apps of their own imagination"--Publisher's website.

Author: Karen Lang, Mit App Inventor Project, Mit Computer Science and Artificial Inte
Publisher: Miteen Press
Published: 02/08/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781536219142
Audience: Ages 9-12

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2021
Booklist 12/01/2021 pg. 40

About the Author
Karen Lang worked for several years as a software engineer before deciding education was her true calling. She spent twenty years teaching computer science, and has worked as education manager for MIT App Inventor since 2015, developing tutorials and curriculum and doing outreach to teachers and students. For five years, she also served on the board of directors for the Computer Science Teachers Association.

Selim Tezel joined the App Inventor team in 2018 as a curriculum developer. A former K-12 mathematics teacher with over twenty years of international teaching experience, he enjoys exploring intersections of technology and playful constructionist pedagogies in the classroom. Recently he worked as a curriculum designer at the Education Development Center, which aims to make computer science accessible and enjoyable for a diverse population of students.

MIT App Inventor, which boasts approximately a million users a month, is a major research project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.