EU CODE WEEK CHALLENGES
App that counts in several languages
This challenge has been written by Samuel Branco and is part of the EU CODE WEEK CHALLENGES.
Target Audience
  1. Lower Secondary School students (12 to 16 years)
  2. Upper Secondary School students (16 to 18 years)
Purpose
  1. To learn how to create a simple app.
  2. To learn to program through blocks.
  3. To learn how to add Labels, buttons, images, sensors and media.
  4. To learn how to organize elements on an app screen.
Recommended Materials
  1. To develop an app you need a computer or a laptop with internet access.
  2. Create an account on the MIT APP Inventor platform, accessible through the https://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu
  3. It is also necessary to install the MIT AI2 Companion app on the smartphone in order to test the developed application.
Duration
  1. 1 hour
Experience
  1. Intermediate
Description
The app lets you count in multiple languages at the press of a button. Whenever the user shakes the smartphone, the count goes back to zero. The challenge is to add another language.
Instructions
  • To complete the challenge, you need to define the other language in which you want the app to count.
  • Then you have to download from the internet (e.g. from Pixabay or Unsplash) the flag of that country and upload it to the MIT APP Inventor platform through the element called flag, in the Picture property.
  • Next you should find out how to spell the name of the country in English and how to say leave and press me in the language of that country.
  • Finally, you have to add the necessary blocks for the app to work in the new language.
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