COMP 125          

Visual Information Processing

with Google App Inventor

Dr. William L. Honig

Loyola University Chicago

A5: Project Brainstorming - Do some initial thinking about your class project

Overview

Time to get your mind into thinking about what your class project will be. 

You will have 4 to 5 weeks to do your class project.  It’s a App Inventor creation of your own choice.

What you need to do

1. Review all the goodies in App Inventor.  Take a look at the Designer components.  Go through the Blocks Editor blocks. Read some of the things about them in the readings list if you are interested in something and don’t know enough about it.
2. Think about something cool and interesting you would like to do with App Inventor.
3. See if you think it’s doable with the blocks and components you know about.  If not, check into them a bit more and see what’s possible.
4. Write down *three* ideas for your app.  Yes, think not just of one but three things you might want to do for your project

1. For each one give it a name (you make up the app name)
2. Write one paragraph  (roughly 100 to 150 words) describing your app.  Cover what it does and some of the key App Inventor things you will use

How and What to turn in

You can use any word processing tool listed in the 7 Steps to  Bb Success to generate your assignment.  I recommend you do it in Google Docs as a Document.

Turn in your assignment in Bb assignment.  Turn in the word processing file.  If you use GDocs turn it in as a PDF file (gDocs File Menu > Download As > PDF)

Grading

20 points in Assignments for 3 app ideas each well described. -5 if you don’t do three. -5 for any weak or incomplete descriptions.