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AppShed – Build HTML5, iPhone and Android apps online

AppShed allows people to become creators of technology, not just consumers.AppShed is a free online app-creation tool where users design, create and publish mobile apps. Everyone gains a huge sense of achievement, having been able to produce something tangible they can share with others. The app-building environment is intuitive and adaptable to your needs. Apps can be tested in real-time either on a mobile device or in a browser.
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Teaching Bronx Students the Language of Computers – The New York Times

The website allows users to post videos of police abuses, track them on an interactive map and even play a game in which the goal is to avoid gunfire from police officers.
Called Protect & Swerve, the website and companion app were created by six Bronx high school students who recently presented their work to business and community leaders, including the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, at an economic summit in Midtown Manhattan.

The students received applause, then a question: How much money would they need to further develop the app?

“Tell your people to call our people,” Shemar DaCosta, 15, replied. “And I’m just putting this out there: We’re all free for internships.”

The students’ success highlights a growing movement in the Bronx to equip young people with the knowledge and the skills to write code, the language of computers, so that they can become creators rather than simply consumers of apps, video games, websites and other programs. There have been coding lessons in schools, so-called weekend hackathons for students to code together for as long as 24 consecutive hours and training institutes for teachers across the borough as educators, leaders and others aim to help students navigate an increasingly digital world and better prepare for jobs in the future.

Source: Teaching Bronx Students the Language of Computers – The New York Times

CodeableCrafts

Codeable Crafts is an app for kids to create their imaginative stories by drawing and coding. Find a template of your favorite or capture your drawing with the camera, and use crayons and stickers to design your character. Your character will become a hero of your story. To tell a story of your character, use the block-based coding tool. Snap the blocks together to make a sequence, or use advanced blocks to make it interactive. You can also share your stories with your family and friends by email or AirDrop. With Codeable Crafts, kids can enrich their imagination and creativity, and learn the basic concept of computational thinking.

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Hopscotch Curriculum

We’re really excited that you’re going to teach your students to program, both for them and for you. Kids have remarkable imaginations, and creating computer programs is an amazing way for them to express themselves. We’ve seen kids create astonishing things using our simple but powerful tool. We know you’ll see the same when using Hopscotch, and hope you share what your students create. Anyone, regardless of their experience in programming, can teach this curriculum. Just as Hopscotch was built on the principle that anyone can become a great programmer, this curriculum is designed on the premise that anyone can become a great programming teacher. Programming is a way of thinking, building, and expressing yourself. Just as English is not really about grammar, and history is not memorizing dates, computer programming is not actually about code or computers. Just as we ask students to make connections between events in history, we ask students to investigate the interactions between complex systems in computer science.

Hopscotch Curriuculum

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RBXDev – Home

Creating multiplayer, physics-based games has never been easier. Use our powerful development environment, ROBLOX Studio, to construct your worlds out of simple physical primitives. Snap blocks together or blow them apart. Use motors, hinges, and other joints to build vehicles and other mechatronic assemblies. Script interactions in Lua, a game industry-standard scripting language. Forget about writing boilerplate code to glue all your entities together a networked environment – not necessary. Prototype a multiplayer game in minutes. If you can imagine it, you can create it in ROBLOX.

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Pyonkee on the App Store on iTunes

Tired of consuming? Let’s enjoy creating! Based on Scratch, Pyonkee provides a real, programming environment, anytime, anywhere! Pyonkee is a new dynamic media for developing various ideas. By combining visual blocks, kids/adults are able to create original games, animations, and stories on their own. Through the programming process, we will learn about logics, productivity, creativity, and collaborations. Pyonkee has been developed from the open-source code of “Scratch 1.4” from MIT Media Lab. Since Pyonkee is fully compatible with Scratch 1.4, millions of existing Scratch projects can be used for reference. Pyonkee’s user interface is optimized for touch interfaces. We do not need a cumbersome typing, even a mouse. Just program wherever you like. Pyonkee nicely supports pinch-in/out display, font scaling for small devices. Moreover, sound recorder and camera are provided for importing your sounds and pictures into the projects. We can mix various media on Pyonkee and program them. Dive into the fun of visual programming!

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Pythonista on the App Store on iTunes

Pythonista brings the Zen of Python™ to your iPad or iPhone. Create interactive experiments and prototypes using multi-touch, animations, and sound – or just use the interactive prompt as a powerful calculator. Pythonista is also a great tool for learning Python – The interactive prompt helps you explore the language with code completion, the entire documentation is accessible right within the app and you can get started with lots of ready-to-run examples.

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Textastic Code Editor for iPad on the App Store on iTunes

Textastic is a fast and versatile text, code and markup editor. It supports syntax highlighting of more than 80 programming and markup languages. Connect to FTP, SFTP and WebDAV servers or to your Dropbox account. Use the built-in WebDAV server to easily transfer files from your Mac or PC over Wi-Fi.

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