App Inventor Resources for CS4HS Organizers

Basic information on how App Inventor works

• App Inventor Tutorials: Working through all of these tutorials is by far the best way to learn the basics of how App Inventor works.
• App Inventor Reference Documentation: This material is developed and maintained by the App Inventor engineers.  It will give you a basic introduction to all of the blocks, and components, as well as some of the high level concepts of App Inventor.
• tAIR (The App Inventor Repository):  Developed and maintained by a handful of advanced users of App Inventor, this site has additional basic information on App Inventor as well as numerous advanced topics.

Advanced information on how App Inventor works

• tAIR (The App Inventor Repository):  Developed and maintained by a handful of advanced users of App Inventor, this site has additional basic information on App Inventor as well as numerous advanced topics.
• App Inventor Resources: Also developed and maintained by a handful of advanced users of App Inventor, this site covers a number of more advanced topics.

Video Tutorials

• App Inventor Power User and Author, Jason Tyler - http://www.youtube.com/user/jwtyler
• O’Reilly Publishing - http://search.oreilly.com/?q=app+inventor+videos

Sample Apps

• General user base: https://sites.google.com/site/theairepository/source-code

• University of San Francisco: http://sites.google.com/site/usfandroidmarket/

• Youth App Lab: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djowRSHQUxo&feature=related

App Inventor in the Classroom

Example Curriculum from the University of San Francisco

Computer Science for non CS majors

Professor Dave Wolber

https://sites.google.com/site/cs107fall2010/schedule

Strategies for Teaching with App Inventor

Professor Dave Wolber, University of San Francisco

https://sites.google.com/site/appinventor/app-inventor-and-computer-science-for-non-cs

Books

App Inventor: Create Your Own Android Apps

Dave Wolber, Hal Abelson, Ellen Spertus, Liz Looney

O’Rielly Publishing

App Inventor for Android: Build your own apps - no experience required!

Jason Tyler

Wiley Publishing

Programming Android Apps for Beginners (German)

Jörg H. Kloss

Pearson Publishing

Educators Instructor Forum

Over 400 educators ranging from 6th grade teachers to university level professors and everything inbetween have subscribed to this email forum. This is great place to explore your ideas for using App Inventor in the classroom with like minded educators.  

https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/?parenturl=http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/forum/&showsearch=true&fragments=true#!forum/app-inventor-instructors

General User Forums

These user forums provide a place for all users of App Inventor to ask questions about how App Inventor works, troubleshoot problems, and share ideas for apps.  

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/forum/