Craft With Code (part 4 of 10)

Have you had an idea for an app and wondered what to do next?

With MIT App Inventor, you can take your idea to action - no programming experience required. It gives you building blocks that you snap together like LEGOs to build an app. You can have a basic app ready in under 30 minutes!

ABOUT APP INVENTOR
MIT App Inventor is the result of a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Google. It has 8.2 M users in 195 countries who have built over 34 M apps with it. In just this month, App Inventor has seen 890.1 K active users. Applications include Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing.
Examples of apps built include: a pedometer app to count and report daily footsteps; an app to monitor the home garden, detect when plants need watering and irrigate them from anywhere in the world; an app that learns to play rock-paper-scissors using machine learning; the only limit is your imagination!

ABOUT THIS LEARNING SERIES
In Craft with Code, participants learn by doing, growing skill by developing a series of apps (4-5 apps) of increasing complexity. The course is structured as a weekly hour of code over 10 weeks that alternates between instructor-led sessions to demonstrate and build an app followed by open-mic sessions for participants to show how they have applied what they learned to bring their ideas to life. By the 10th week, participants will have acquired a solid foundation in coding, having learned and put concepts into practical use - data structures, flow control, procedures, objects and patterns.

Each session introduces new concepts so participants are advised not to skip any session. Recordings will be available in case you miss a live session.

Participants need a laptop or desktop with a web browser. You will also need a Google (gmail) account. App Inventor runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install to get started developing apps.

CREDITS
I want to thank Prof. David Wolber who is my inspiration for jumping on-board MIT App Inventor and taking the technology out to others. His Course-in-a-box teaching materials are the foundation on which I built this course. And I want to thank the folks at MIT for this project.
Let's rock and roll!

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Sanjay works with Bayer Crop Science, US, where he leads initiatives to streamline R&D process and improve outcomes. The goal is “Health for all, hunger for none” through crop improvement accelerated by predictive modeling and analysis. He has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO (USA).

He is passionate about digital technologies - Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing. He believes these technologies can empower us to connect with challenges facing our communities and create solutions through collaboration. He enjoys coaching people to increase the community’s digital quotient.

In his spare time, Sanjay volunteers with the Art of Living Foundation to organize weekend workshops on breath-work and meditation.