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  • BlackBerry
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  • Dell
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  • Liferay
  • Media Temple, Inc.
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  • Oracle
  • Percona
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  • Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
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  • SourceGear
  • Urban Airship
  • Vertica
  • VMware
  • (mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Dave Wolber

Dave Wolber
Professor, University of San Francisco

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David Wolber is a professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. David teaches App Inventor in his “Computing, Robots, and the Web” course at USF. The apps created by his students– mostly humanities and business majors with no prior programming experience–have been chronicled the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Tech Crunch, Fortune.CNN.com, and Yahoo news.

Sessions

4:10pm Thursday, 07/28/2011
Programming with App Inventor for Android
Mobile Platforms
 Location: Portland 252
Tags: android, app_inventor, minorities, students
Deborah Wallach (Google), Eni Mustafaraj (Wellesley College), Dave Wolber (University of San Francisco), Ralph Morelli (Trinity College, Hartford, CT)
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App Inventor is a new visual programming environment developed by Google, free to the public. Since Fall 2009, several educational institutions have been using it to teach programming in introductory computer science courses. This presentation will share experiences from these courses, showcase examples of mobile apps created by students, and discuss the future of App Inventor use in education. Read more.