ProCodeCG Kids Coding Camp – Creating Apps – Day #1

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First day of Creating Apps! 🙂

Today we learn how to create android apps with Thunkable

Thunkable is a spin off of App Inventor. It is a very friendly tools to create mobile apps

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And after the apps ready, it can be exported using QR Code or as .apk to be downloaded to computer, and run with a simulator.

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As the beginning, we create a button that will display a picture when it is clicked
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Thunkable use drag and drop coding (very similar to Blockly)

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A recommended simulator is KoPlayer (for PC) or BlueStacks (for Windows and Mac). This is how the app looks like on BlueStacks for Mac
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The next app we created is a login form

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The code
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How it looks like on BlueStacks
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If we enter the correct user id and password, it will go to the next screen

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Then we add some back button
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And some time picker too

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Before the class started
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Capt. Cinta and Capt. Syahna

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Edo, Thoriq and Fauzan
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Fadhlan and Fayza

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Zahra and Icha
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Capt. Zaki and Capt. Fizhan

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Capt. Zaki preparing the lessons today
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The QR Code

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Everyone can read it and use the app on their android phone
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Capt. Cinta assisting Fadhlan

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Lots of things to do today because we had to do lots of setups for each computer and smartphones

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This is Tian
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Ismail

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Nadhira
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Capt. Zaki assisting Fayza

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Rheino
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Fadhlan
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Ara
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Zahra and Icha having fun 😀

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Edo and Thoriq too 😀
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Ozan looks so happy too 🙂

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Today our GodFather Captain visited us again and shared some stories about electronic devices and information technology 🙂
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He showed us Gizwits
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The kids were really interested

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ProCodeCG is so going to make class or coding camp “IOT for Kids” 😉
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Back to work again

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This is how the app looks like on kids android smartphones
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This is too fun! We will continue this tomorrow! 🙂

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