Become an App Inventor:
The Official Guide from
MIT App Inventor

Book Websites:

• Candlewick Press
• IndieBound
• Barnes & Noble
• Bookshop
• Amazon

Reviews

A clear, empowering way to learn app-making. —Kirkus Reviews

This step-by-step guide is a valuable aide. . . A go-to resource for passionate creators who are ready to actively invent and design. —Booklist

This book is currently blowing my teen coders away and being poured through by my husband, kids and their friends. Absolutely an outstanding and the most accessible book on this subject. —Jesica Sweedler DeHart, Neill Public Library, Pullman Washington

Videos:

• Authors’ Greetings (06/15/2022)
• Orange County Children’s Book Festival interview with Chris Evans (10/14/2022)

Blogs:

• MIT Prof. Hal Abelson’s Blog (3/4/2022)
• Center for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE): Q&A with Karen Lang and Selim Tezel all about Become an App Inventor (3/24/2022)

Book Updates:

• Please note that in Chapter 3, the YandexTranslate component on the App Inventor website has been replaced by the Translator component, and all YandexTranslate1 blocks have become Translator1 blocks. Amazon, instead of Yandex, is now the service that hosts the translator. This change affects pages 59–71.

Author bios:

KAREN LANG Education Specialist Karen Lang has spent much of her career as an educator, focused on computer science education and empowering young people to be technology creators. She has over 20 years of computer science teaching experience in the US—at high schools in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts—as well as at international K–12 schools in England, Venezuela, and Hungary. Karen spent five years with the MIT App Inventor team as Education and Business Development Manager, where she created curricula, tutorials, and the Master Trainer course. She also co-authored the book Become an App Inventor with her colleague Selim Tezel. Before coming to appinventor.org, Karen developed curricula and learning materials for Technovation, supporting girls in the Technovation Girls global competition.

SELIM TEZEL Selim is the Education Team Lead at the App Inventor project. He joined the team in 2018 as a curriculum developer. He is a former K-12 mathematics teacher who has taught overseas and in the US for 22 years, exploring intersections of technology and playful constructionist pedagogies in the classroom. Recently he worked on the Beauty and joy of Computing project as a curriculum designer at EDC (Education Development Center) which in collaboration with UC Berkeley and NYC Public Schools aims to make computer science accessible and enjoyable for a diverse population of students. When not working Selim enjoys playwriting and creating visual arts.