INTRODUCTION

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Technology influences all aspects of our lives, and computing jobs and opportunities abound. It’s more important than ever for everyone to understand how computers work. It’s especially important that kids, including those from underrepresented groups, know that they have the ability to write software, study computer science, or become computer programmers if they so choose.

In this book, you’ll learn how to make useful and exciting mobile software—apps for phones and tablets—with App Inventor, while exploring key programming concepts along the way. We’ll create apps that send text messages, recognize speech, access a phone’s list ...

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