Mobile App Instructions for Girls

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While you are working on Apps, you can post a question or idea video in Appy Thoughts. Watch videos from other girls and post replies!

Coding Compliments

For this activity, you will build a mobile app that gives people compliments. We will use Thunkable, a block based programming environment that uses Blockly to code apps for Android devices. Open the link to the tutorial and follow the instructions. You will also find a link to Thunkable at the top of this page.

Coding Compliments.docx

Powerful Programmers

You will create a slideshow that allows users to navigate through different profiles of women in computer science, including your team! You will be using the playing cards from the Notable Women in Tech project. You will learn how to use more then one screen in an app, as well as another way to handle events. You will also learn about the important role women have had in computer science. Open the link to the tutorial and follow the instructions.

powerful programmers_FINAL.docx

Paint Pot

Paint Pot is an app that allows you to draw on a picture. You will code buttons for different pen color and line size. You will create this app in several stages, see the tutorials linked below. As you learn about different concepts you will build upon this app, saving a new version each time. You will be working with the same team throughout the creation of this app.

Magic 8 Ball

Magic 8-Ball is a fortune-telling app. In this app, a virtual magic 8-ball can be asked questions and provide predictions. A user can ask a question, shake the tablet (or phone), and hear the magic 8-ball’s prediction to their question. This app uses an accelerometer to handle the shaking event, a list of possible predictions, and text-to-speech to have the phone speak the magic 8-ball’s prediction, which is randomly selected from the list of predictions. Use the tutorials to create the magic 8-ball app.

Magic 8Ball.docx

Mobile App Makeathon

A makeathon is a design activity that takes place over several sessions. Your team will work together to create a larger project using the skills that you have learned thus far. For the mobile makeathon, you are challenged to build an app in Thunkable that solves a problem in your community and addresses one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. You will pitch your ideas to each other and form teams based on your interests and the skills you'd like to use. Once project teams are formed, you will work through a series of design cycles to complete the project.

Instructions for the makeathon are here: Mobile Makeathon for students

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