After an extremely interesting day at Google Cambridge, the Comp Sci group jumped straight into app development for the Android Smart Phone. We work with the drag and drop App Inventor IDE developed by Google Labs which bears many similarities to Alice and Scratch (other programming languages used widely for teaching). After starting off with a simple implementation of Hello Purr (pun on the famous Hello World Program) which displayed a picture of a cat and demonstrated basic user interfaces we immediately began building slightly more complex systems. We then built upon the Hello Purr program to create our next application Paint Pot:
Paint Pot demonstrated a simple and easy to use graphics editor which prepared us to work on the next project, Mole Mash. This simple yet fun game reflected the work in user interface which we had done previous two Apps while adding real time interaction:
This app also had many parameters which affected the gameplay such as obstacles or mole speed which added a dynamic feel to the programming.
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