About this book

This book will help you become an App Inventor—someone who doesn’t just use a phone or tablet, but takes control of it! You’ll learn to create some fun apps, and along the way you’ll also learn programming skills that you can use in lots of other programming languages. We wrote this book for kids, but anyone who’s curious about programming and mobile devices will find it useful.

We aren’t expecting you to have any programming knowledge at all—we’ll start from the very beginning (you’ll be surprised how quickly you learn). You need to know your way around a keyboard and mouse, how to save files, and how to use a web browser like Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. You’ll also find it useful to know how to use an Android smartphone and ...

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