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Grades 5–10 · Live 1:1 online

App Development Classes for Kids

With MIT App Inventor, a free block-based tool from MIT, students design and build real mobile apps: screens, buttons, data and phone sensors. They test their apps on a phone or tablet and learn how the apps they use every day are made.

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Grades

5–10

Duration

2 months

Topic

Web & Apps · Programming

Format

Live 1:1 online

Who it's for

Is App Development (MIT App Inventor) right for your child?

  • Children in Class 5 to 10
  • Kids with app ideas of their own
  • Scratch learners ready for something new

Before starting: None. Scratch experience helps. A phone or tablet for testing is useful but not required.

Students design and build real mobile apps with MIT App Inventor, a free block-based tool from MIT. They learn screens, buttons, data and sensors, and build apps they can run on a phone or tablet, from a quiz app to a drawing app and a to-do list.

What you'll need

  • A laptop or desktop with a stable internet connection
  • A phone or tablet to test apps is helpful (an on-screen emulator also works)

Computational concepts covered

  • Sequence
  • Loops
  • Events
  • Conditionals
  • Parallelism (not covered)
  • Operators (not covered)
  • Data

Concepts from the Creative Computing framework (Harvard Graduate School of Education).

App Development (MIT App Inventor) course cover

Syllabus

What your child learns in App Development (MIT App Inventor)

  1. Module 1

    Designing apps

    • Screens, buttons, labels and images
    • Layouts that work on phones
    • Thinking about the user

  2. Module 2

    App logic

    • Events and procedures
    • Variables, lists and conditions
    • Multiple screens

  3. Module 3

    Phone features

    • Sensors like the accelerometer
    • Camera, sound and drawing canvas
    • Storing data on the device

  4. Module 4

    Build your own app

    • Planning an app idea
    • Testing with real users
    • Improving and sharing

Projects your child builds

  • Quiz app
  • Drawing app
  • To-do list
  • Shake-to-play game
  • An app of your own idea

By the end of the course

  • Builds working mobile apps
  • Designs simple, usable interfaces
  • Uses events, lists and data in apps

Level 4 of the CodingChamp learning path

Web & App Development

A natural next step afterwards: Web Development Classes for Kids. Not sure where your child should start?

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$96

8 × 60-minute live 1:1 classes · $12 per class · standard $120

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FAQ

App Development (MIT App Inventor) classes: parents' questions

MIT App Inventor apps can be tested on Android and iOS devices through its companion app, and an on-screen emulator also works.

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