ProCodeCG Kids Coding Camp – Creating Apps – Day #1

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

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.

As the beginning, we create a button that will display a picture when it is clicked

Thunkable use drag and drop coding (very similar to Blockly)

A recommended simulator is KoPlayer (for PC) or BlueStacks (for Windows and Mac). This is how the app looks like on BlueStacks for Mac

The next app we created is a login form

The code

How it looks like on BlueStacks

If we enter the correct user id and password, it will go to the next screen

Then we add some back button

And some time picker too

Before the class started

Capt. Cinta and Capt. Syahna

Edo, Thoriq and Fauzan

Fadhlan and Fayza

Zahra and Icha

Capt. Zaki and Capt. Fizhan

Capt. Zaki preparing the lessons today

The QR Code

Everyone can read it and use the app on their android phone

Capt. Cinta assisting Fadhlan

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

This is Tian

Ismail

Nadhira

Capt. Zaki assisting Fayza

Rheino

Fadhlan

Ara

Zahra and Icha having fun 😀

Edo and Thoriq too 😀

Ozan looks so happy too 🙂

Today our GodFather Captain visited us again and shared some stories about electronic devices and information technology 🙂

He showed us Gizwits

The kids were really interested

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

Back to work again

This is how the app looks like on kids android smartphones

This is too fun! We will continue this tomorrow! 🙂

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ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class 11 June 2016 – Thunkable

Today we learned new things and we got newcomers too 🙂 We got Tyo and Muhammad joining the class 🙂

We tried Thunkable, a spin out of AppInventor to create apps and deploy it to Android phones 🙂 This is a part of Coding Camp’s preparation, we tested all materials for Coding Camp in Regular Classes so we can find out any troubles that might occurs beforehand.

Awa, the youngest one was given another task: creating games with Kodu 🙂

While Prudence and Clarence picking up where they left on Python CodeAcademy 🙂

So most of the kids worked on Thunkable

The apps created with Thunkable can be run on Android phones or if the kids don’t have smartphones, they can download the .apk and run the apps on this simulator, KoPlayer 🙂 Thanks to Faris for recommending this useful simulator 😉

Muhammad, our newcomer seemed to love working on CodeCombat 🙂 He learned about sequence and loops today 🙂

And here’s our lead captain keeping up with Coding Camp preparation 😉

And another captain: Malik was working on an unbelievable project in Java! Pure Java (no Greenfoot) with Eclipse as the IDE.

And this captain, Faris, has gone very far on codeSaya.com. He started to learn OOP in Python 😀

These two, Prudence and Clarence were bored with CodeAcademy so they were tinkering around with HTML and JavaScript 🙂

While these guys working in groups on Reza’s computer 🙂

So everybody’s got their thing to do 🙂 It might be different topics in different languages but they’re all doing some coding! 🙂

We still have a week for Coding Camp preparation, and we make sure all Captains are ready! This Lead Captain has to make sure everything goes right 😉

Next week we will learn about LUA 😉