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Unit 3: App Development

Learning Targets

1. Set up a website using a content management system
2. Customize the CMS with a theme that supports your website content.
3. Incorporate plugins to the CMS website to increase functionality and user experience.

Resources

1. MIT App Inventor
2. App Inventor Tutorials
3. Reading: Conditionals
4. Reading: Variables
5. Intro to Canvas

Assessments

1. App Inventor Beginner Tutorials
   1. TalkToMe Text-to-Speech App | Video | PDF
   2. Extended TalkToMe App: Shake! | Video | PDF
   3. BallBounce Game App | Video | PDF
   4. DigitalDoodle Drawing App | Video | PDF
2. Soundboard App
   1. Audio Sites
      1. youtube-mp3.org
      2. clipconverter.cc
      3. moviewavs.com
      4. freesound.org
      5. soundjay.com
3. PaintBot Tutorial | PDF
   1. Step 1 Video: When user touches, draw a circle. When user drags, draw a line.
   2. Step 2 Video: Add menu items that let user draw in different colors.
   3. Step 3 Video: Add menu items that let user draw different size circles.
   4. Step 4 Video: Let the user use camera to set background picture.
   5. Step 5 Video: Add feedback for the user interface.
   6. Step 6: Customize it!
4. Mole Mash! | PDF Instructions
   1. Step 1 Video: Design the user interface and make the mole move randomly
   2. Step 2 Video: Add a point when the user touches the mole 
   3. Step 3 Video: Subtract a point when the user misses the mole 
   4. Step 4 Video: Change the app so that an energy bar gets smaller when the user misses
   5. Step 5 Video: Make the game end when energy is zero
   6. Step 6: Cutomize it!