An experience with the App Inventor in CS0 for the development of the STEM didactics

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI:10.1145/3284179.3284189

J. A. Martínez-Valdés, Nathalia Andrea Martínez-Ijají

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App Inventor is an online tool for creating applications for mobile devices for the Android operating system. With this tool, it is possible to program applications without the need to learn a programming language, an excellent approximation to be introduced in the development of applications. Consequently, App Inventor has also been effectively used for professional development workshops for K12 teachers, as well as introductory computing courses at the college level. Their experiences report on students' high motivation and sometimes also on higher performance. We adopted App Inventor as the introductory programming language for a CS0 in an introductory course to programming in high school. The results we obtained for both the App Inventor language and the CodeMaster tool were less satisfactory than expected and, in some regards, disappointing. We describe our experience, analyze students' acceptance and discuss some consequences and lessons learnt to App Inventor in pre-university courses.

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在CS0中使用App Inventor开发STEM教学的经验

App Inventor是一个在线工具，用于为Android操作系统的移动设备创建应用程序。有了这个工具，就可以在不需要学习编程语言的情况下编写应用程序，这是在应用程序开发中引入的一个很好的近似方法。因此，App Inventor也被有效地用于K12教师的专业发展研讨会，以及大学水平的计算机入门课程。他们的经验报告了学生的高动机，有时也有更高的表现。在高中的编程入门课程中，我们采用了App Inventor作为CS0的入门编程语言。我们获得的App Inventor语言和CodeMaster工具的结果都不如预期的令人满意，在某些方面甚至令人失望。我们描述了我们的经验，分析了学生的接受程度，并讨论了在大学预科课程中对App Inventor的一些影响和教训。

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