Programming Awesome Apps

Programming Awesome Apps book cover — coding get kids Heather Lyons

Programming Awesome Apps — page 1 — Contents Getting Started What Is an App What Do Apps Do Let’s Plan an App The Design What if Rewards Looking for Bugs Publishing Your App Apps Help People Extension Activities Words to Remember Activity Answers Index 3 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 22 23 24 Children will need access to the Internet for most of the activities in this book Parents or teachers should supervise Internet use and discuss online safety with children

Programming Awesome Apps — page 2 — Getting Started Hi I’m Data Duck I’m going to help you learn what apps are and how you can create your own In order to make an app we need to understand how to write code Writing code is what we do when we give a computer instructions These instructions are saved within apps They tell computers how to do all the different things we use apps for every day DATA DUCK In this book we will be using block-based code These are instructions for computers that are stored in blocks We can move and rearrange the blocks to write code The blocks look like this when this character is clicked ask What’s your parrot’s name and wait say join answer What a great name There are lots of activities in the book for you to try out There are also some online activities for you to practice For the online activities go to www blueshiftcoding com kidsgetcoding and look for the activity with the page number from the book 3

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