Starting Up Part 2

Presentations

You will present the apps you created on Friday.

Which ones do you like and why?  Would you use an app like this?  Why or why not?  Would you pay for an app like this?  What would be a fair price?

Now it’s on you!

You have a little over a month to make something really cool and/or work on something you really want to learn more about.  Why not give it try?

Working on your own or in a group of 3-4 people (no more, please!), you can dive into any of the following topics.  You can either play around and do tutorials or work on your own or in a group to create a product or a concept for a product (new game, app, or website).

Gaming

Coding

Apps

Visual Design

Blogging

Websites

Your resources (create, wireframe, follow tutorial, etc.):

Apps

Dreamweaver CS6 (use mobile template)

App Inventor

FluidUI.com (create design concept)

App tutorials

AppData.com (see top apps)

Flat UI design kits (for icons and other graphics)

Free icon sets

Touch Develop (app creation tool)

appery.io (also see appery.io article)

Games

Mobile game app with App Inventor

Scratch

Unity (open source game platform)

Touch Develop

Game Star Mechanic

Puzzle Script

Game Salad (this is a free download so if you’re interested let me know and I will have to install it)

Game Maker Studio (another free download)

Game Maker Studio tutorial

JSDares.com

Coding

About programming languages

Mozilla Webmaker

W3Schools.com

HTML Dog

Code Combat

Hackety Hack

Hack (created by Facebook and what Facebook is built on, similar to PHP)

Code.org

Scratch

Code Academy

JSDares.com (JavaScript)

LearnStreet.com

Programmr.com

CSS tools and resources

JavaScript tools and resources

Even more resources!

Websites

Dreamweaver CS6

Notepad ++

Flat UI design kits (for icons and other graphics)

Free icon sets

Top responsive design tools

Smashing Magazine (great for resources and inspiration)

20 web design tools to check out

Color tools

Web design tutorials

Button builder

Visual design

Canva

ThingLink

Easel.ly

Pixlr.com

Adobe CS4- I have laptops that have Adobe programs like Photoshop and Illistrator installed on them.  If you want to use one of these to do some design work let me know.

Check out some free graphic design programs

Collage makers (be aware that some are not free)

Animatron (create animations and interactive images)

Fotor (photo editing and collages)

Color tools

Typography tutorials

Button builder

Blogging

WordPress.com

What to do?

Do you want to create something, maybe an app, game or website?

Do you just want to learn some new things and spend some time with tutorials?

Maybe you want to do a little of both?

If this is overwhelming then I can help you choose something to work on.

I have taken the time to curate a ton of resources for you and I really want you to have the chance to explore what you want and to learn more about something that really interests you.

Now is NOT the time to do homework or projects for other classes!  If it seems that you are not taking advantage of the opportunity to work on projects of your choice then I will give you assignments of my choice.