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Year 8

Mobile app development

6 lessons

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  • Design and development
  • Programming

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This unit takes pupils from designer to developer in order to create their own mobile app. Using App Lab from code.org, learners will familiarise themselves with the coding environment and have an opportunity to build on the programming concepts they used in previous units to undertake a project.

This unit progresses pupils' understanding of programming constructs in a new block-based programming environment. Pupils will have the opportunity to build on the programming constructs they have used in previous programming units. They will apply computational thinking to a larger scale project to develop their own mobile app.

  1. Decomposing a problem to meet the needs of a user
  2. Event-driven programming
  3. Error detection and correction
  4. User input in block-based programs
  5. App development
  6. Evaluating the app

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