Create mobile services and applications regardless of your computer programming knowledge. This extraordinary book introduces you to App Inventor for Android, a powerful tool that exposes you to the world of computer programming so you can create technology rather than merely consume it. Ideal for beginning and intermediate Android developers, hobbyists and makers, and students of any age, App Inventor teaches will help you turn your great idea into a full-functioning app in no time. "David Wolber is the Chair of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. David teaches App Inventor in his €œComputing, Robots, and the Web€ course at USF. The apps created by his students€“ mostly humanities and business majors with no prior programming experience€“have been chronicled in articles of the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Tech Crunch, Fortune.CNN.com, and Yahoo news. David began teaching App Inventor as partof Google’s 2009 pilot program involving ten universities. In 2010, he received a grant from Google to work with the App Inventor team and authored the advanced tutorials that appear on the App Inventor site. He is currently writing a book on App Inventor along with Hal Abelson that will be published by O’Reilly in Spring 2011." "Harold (Hal) Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from MIT. In 1992, Abelson was designated as one of MIT's six inaugural MacVicar Faculty Fellows, in recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to teaching and undergraduate education. Abelson was recipient in 1992 of the Bose Award (MIT's School of Engineering teaching award). Abelson is also the winner of the 1995 Taylor L. Booth Education Award given by IEEE Computer Society, cited for his continued contributions to the pedagogy and teaching of introductory computer science. He is co-director of the MIT-Microsoft iCampus Research Alliance in Eductional Technology, co-chair of the MIT Council on Educational Technology, and serves on the steering committee of the HP-MIT Alliance. In these capacities, he played key roles in fostering MIT institutional educational technology initiatives such MIT OpenCourseWare and DSpace. He also consults to HP Laboratories in the area of digital information systems. Abelson has a broad interest in information technology and policy, and developed and teaches the MIT course Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier. He is a founding director of Creative Commons and Public Knowledge, and he was a founding director of the Free Software Foundation. Together, these three organizations are devoted to strengthing our intellectual commons. Abelson has a longstandinginterest in using computation as a conceptual framework in teaching. He directed the first implementation of Logo for the Apple Computer, which made the language widely available on personal computers beginning in 1981; and publisheda widely selling book on Logo in 1982. His book Turtle Geometry, written withAndrea diSessa in 1981, presented a computational approach to geometry has been cited as ‘the first step in a revolutionary change in the entire teaching/learning process.’"
- ISBN: 978-1-4493-9748-7
- Editorial: O'Reilly
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés