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What is it?
What is it?
App Lab is a quick and powerful programming tool that allows you to drag-and-drop real-world bits of JavaScript code. With it, you can program a phone app on your own and send it to any device.
How is it helpful, unique, and cool?
How is it helpful, unique, and cool?
Since App Lab uses real-world blocks of JavaScript, you can use your experience with this to build your own website in the future. Everything from Twitter to YouTube to CoolMathGames has some JavaScript components. You could use it to make:
An app that can come up with outfits based on the clothing you own.
Webpages to help display your art or music.
Forms to help gather survey information for a charity.
A movie or video game review app.
Video games like tetris, flappybird, or snake.
Interactive stories and choose-your-own-adventures
How has it been used?
How has it been used?
App Lab has been used to create all sorts of awesome applications:
JavaScript, the programming language that App Lab uses, has been used to build 2048, PayPal, and Uber.
How do I use it?
How do I use it?
Signing Up
Signing Up
To use App Lab, you should make a free account through Code.org. Click on “Sign In” in the top right of https://studio.code.org/home. You can sign up with a personal email or your school email. To use your school email, click on this button in the window:
If you don’t want to make an account, you can start working in the tutorial below without one, but it may not save your progress.
Learning to Code
Learning to Code
When learning to code, you can learn by tutorial or by experimentation. If you have used Scratch, Python, or some other bit of code in the past, you may want to hop right into it and play around. If this is your first time with code, I encourage you to start with the tutorial:
App Lab: Make a Simple App
App Lab: Make a Simple App
Where can I use it in school?
Where can I use it in school?
Since we already discussed where it is used in the “real world,” let’s look at how you can use it in different classes. To use it in a class for an assignment, make sure to ask if the teacher is okay with you doing so. Make sure to explain how it relates to what you are learning.
English - Write an interactive story that changes depending on what you click.
Math - Design a video game to test other student’s math skills.
Science - Create an interactive cell that explains each part when you click on it.
Social Studies - Make a website and survey on an issue you are learning about.
Art - Use the “turtle” to draw geometric designs in unique patterns.
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