App Inventor 1st Edition

I have been learning to use App Inventor since I first got a smart phone about six months ago. This book is a much needed learning text for App Inventor. It teaches by having you build examples apps with each one getting a little harder and introducing new concepts.It starts with Hello Purr, a variation of Hello World. The book makes even this well-known app fun because of a couple of variations it throws in.In the meantime it explains everything step by step and teaches useful programming practices like testing often, in fact each time you add something new to your program.The chapters are all well illustrated including a few fun photographs of real people illustrating something about the app.The book is divided into two main sections. The first section, thankfully, is all the fun apps which you build and learn by doing.The second section, called Inventor's Manual, is also very interesting when you are ready for it. It discusses issues from a programmers point of view with suggestions on incremental development and similar helpful programming design tips.It also includes an in depth discussion of all the features, components, and blocks in App Inventor.The two sections of the book, the tutorials and the Inventor's Manual together provide far more coherent and approachable documentation for App Inventor than Google's on-line documentation.For anyone who craves a little structure in their learning, I highly recommend this book.

Both easy to understand and yet delivers some computational concepts. I'm not a programmer (well I diddled a bit in Basic and Logo way way back). Besides, it's Abelson! That should be enough for you.

This book is for App Inventor Classic --- not the new and vastly improved AI2. It is also available on the App Inventor website -- for FREE. However -- if you were using App Inventor Classic (which many people still do) it is well written.

well what can I say It works , i got it fast , not much else really to say .

I bought this book based on some of the good reviews and with the main reason to test how fast one could actually get nice apps up and running. Comming from an engineering background I've also done the old-school coding (not yet for apps), but was really interested to find out how effective/versatile this method actually was.Scanned through thr book briefly and at first sight it looked indeed very promissing. The I decided to check the recommended website (appinventor.googlelabs), but then immediately got re-directed to a page that Googlelabs was shut down 31st Dec 2011 ... luckily MIT was taking this over from Google, but also here it seems they still need till half April 2012 to get a first release. what a bummer ... you need the web-service to do something, so here it stops.So on one hand disappointed, but on the other hand the book looks promissing and so does the technology, so I am awaiting now anxiously ... till the release at MIT I advise people not to buy the book

This book made it easy for an IT-phobic person to create my own apps. I highly recommend it and am glad I bought it.

I highly recommend this book if you are a non programmer. You will not be disappointed. It is a great book.

Bien, didactique, en deux parties :Première partie, apprentissage par l'exemple.Deuxième partie, cours d'informatique qui reprend les notions vu dans les exemples.En ce qui concerne la langue, une fois que l'on a le vocabulaire technique, l'ouvrage est rédigé dans un langage pas trop compliqué, compréhensible en grande partie même si l'on ne parle pas anglais couramment.

Il volume ha rispettato le mie aspettative. Il testo è ben scritto, ben commentato e ricco di esempi. 5 stelle

I bought this book along with Kloss's and Tyler's. I started with this one. It takes you inside the topic through examples that you can "package" on your phone and show to your friends from day one. You might find some of the examples on the MIT site, but this is much more complete. I have been using Kloss's as a reference. I did not read Tyler's yet. If you want to buy only one book Wolber's is the one.

For those of you who do not know what app inventor is, it is essentially Lego for mobile applications on the Android platform. It allows you to make apps very quickly with little to no programming knowledge by following some very clever and well thought out tutorials.I bought this book for my 11 year old son as he is interested in computers and programming, so I though this would be a good introduction for him. The book is written for beginner programmers and really does bring across the simplicity of the model used. The general idea behind app inventor is to use small building blocks (think Lego) to create your application. NO PROGRAMMING knowledge is required! To build the applications you just drag and drop components onto a canvas and then link actions together using the building blocks. The tutorials are spot on building both confidence and functionality as you move from one tutorial to another. The book covers the tutorials you can find on the app inventor site in the first 13 chapters (with some new apps), the second half of the book is more a general programming tutorial highlighting what is available and how it can be used. Too be honest the second half is a pretty useful reference manual, so well worth getting. Overall this is an excellent book and introduction. You can build some seriously appealing and useful applications with the tool-kit. If you have any doubts have a try on the app inventor site, once your hooked by this book!

This book is an authority on the App Inventor.It is published by O'Reilly, a well-respected technical publisher.The text is professionally written and presented, with excellent clear diagram.This contains all the information about creating your own apps from scratch.The kids at school love App Inventor, and this book helps teachers to teach it.I know a good deal of the information in the early parts of this book are on the web, but programming on the computer at the same time as reading the information on your Kindle or the actual book is very much easier.Well done to all the team at MIT too.

Molto interessante e utile. Per tutti gli appassionati di informatica. Un argomento attuale di rapido riscontro pratico anche a scopo didattico.