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App Inventor
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App Inventor

by David Wolber, Hal Abelson, Ellen Spertus, Liz Looney
May 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
386 pages
11h 41m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 10. MakeQuiz and TakeQuiz

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The Presidents Quiz app in Chapter 8 can be customized to build any quiz, but the customization is restricted to App Inventor programmers. Only you, as the programmer, can modify the questions and answers; there is no way for parents, teachers, or other app users to create their own quizzes or change the quiz questions (unless they too want to learn how to use App Inventor!).

In this chapter, you’ll build a MakeQuiz app that lets a “teacher” create quizzes using an input form. The quiz questions and answers will be stored in a web database so that “students” can access a separate TakeQuiz app and take the test. While building these two apps, you’ll make yet another significant conceptual leap and learn how to create apps with user-generated data that is shared across apps and among users.

The MakeQuiz app

Figure 10-1. The MakeQuiz app

MakeQuiz and TakeQuiz are two apps that work in tandem and allow a “teacher” to create quizzes for a “student.” Parents can create fun trivia apps for their children during a long road trip, grade-school teachers can build “Math Blaster” quizzes, and college students can build quizzes to help their study groups prepare for a final. This chapter builds on the Presidents Quiz in Chapter 8, so if you haven’t completed that app, you should do ...

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