Youth App Development for Smartphones (Coding)

Learn to use App Inventor to develop Smartphone applications.                                                                                       Programming is a great skill to learn because it helps you think in a certain way—this is

sometimes called computational thinking. What this really means is that once you can program,

you can solve lots of problems in the real world, too. Even if you become an architect,

an artist, an engineer, or a scientist, the skills you learn from programming are useful. These

skills are things like

■ Thinking creatively

■ Problem solving

■ Sequencing steps

■ Logic and math skills

■ Understanding people’s needs