0. Today’s featured app:
1. Breakfast announcement
Stay tuned for details about a class breakfast we’ll have in Cafe Electra before the seniors leave us!
2. Self-directed projects for May
Counting today, you have 11 days this month to work on anything you want!
Your project must be related to class. It can be something we already worked on this year or something different. You can work individually or work with up to 2 other people for a group of 3.
Think: do you want to make a webpage? An app? A game? Something else? Do you want to complete some self-paced tutorials to refresh what you’ve learned or to learn something new?
Today’s goal: come up with a project idea and get started
Make your own WEBPAGE; here are some suggestions
a. Dreamweaver CS6- use template or create something from scratch
b. Notepad++- build upon something you created earlier on the year or do something new from scratch
c. Download a cool template to modify- try http://html5up.net/
Make an APP; here are some suggestions
a. AppInventor– modify a tutorial from here to create your own thing; download & test it on an Android tablet
b. Dreamweaver CS6- use web app template & PhoneGapBuild; download & test it on an Android tablet
c. Create an interactive mock-up using FluidUI or Mozilla AppMaker
Make a GAME; here are some suggestions
a. AppInventor– modify a game tutorial from here to create your own thing; download & test it on an Android tablet
b. Try Scratch
c. Unity (open source game platform; this is installed on one computer- if it’s not yours I can download and install it for you)
d. Game Salad (this is a free download so if you’re interested let me know and I will have to install it; some computers already have it)
e. Try this mobile snap game tutorial
f. Try this Pong game tutorial
OTHER project ideas
a. Infographic, try Easely.ly
b. Interactive image, try ThingLink
c. Use Pixlr.com to create something
d. Interactive JavaScript Timeline
e. Continue building out the page you have on the class website
f. Create an online quiz
BOSTON GLOBE student app project
a. Continue working on this; open to your ideas!
Self-paced TUTORIALS and skill-building:
- Free online basic website class from UMass (check out class lessons on top right of page; browse what you want)
- This free & great HTML/CSS tutorial
- Code.org
- Code Academy
- Code Avengers
- DIY.org
- DevFreeCasts.org
- Best YouTube channels for aspiring programmers
- Bucky’s Room videos
Or, SOMETHING ELSE you come up with– let me know what you’re thinking!