Preparation

You should have successfully completed the readings, homeworks, and tutorial lessons described on the schedule.

Meet with your partner and decide on a project idea. Develop a 1-minute elevator pitch that you can present to the class on the due date. Meet with the instructor outside of class to get approval for your project idea.

Requirements

• Work in two-person teams so you can collaborate and help each other.

• The app must be as complex as MoleMash.

• The app must use some blocks and functionality not covered in the tutorials. Explore App Inventor!

• You must get instructor approval for the project idea at least 1 week before the due date.

• The app may be a variation of a tutorial or an existing app. If so, make sure you give credit to the original app in your writeup.

Possibilities

• Design and implement a variation of the MoleMash game that uses animation and randomness in some interesting way.

• Design and implement game that involves the rolling of dice.

• Design a 2-player Tic-Tac-Toe game -- i.e., 2 players use a single phone.

• Math Simulation. Write an interactive app that lets the user figure out a solution to the following puzzle.: A farmer has 1200 ft. of fencing and wants to fence off a rectangular field that borders a straight river. He does not need any fencing along the river. What are the dimensions that yeild the largest area? (I have other such puzzles if more than one group wants to try this type of project.)

• Quiz Game App: Write an app that gives the user some kind of quiz and display their score.

• Mostly, you should "roll your own" ideas and, perhaps, run them by me to see how feasible they would be for a first project.

Teams for Project 1

• Evan Abraham and Rob Hamblett
• Jordan Adams and Jennifer Pelletier
• Sabastion Archibald-Kimmel and Richie Khan
• Audrey Butler and Emily Horn
• John Daly and Samuel Funnell
• Katherine DuVal and Pamela Larromana
• Edward Franca and Brian Plungis
• Kyle Garvin and Robert Gau
• Chloe Hirschowitz and Nykia Tanniehill
• Chudi Iregbulem and Isak Kurbasic
• Dylan Mosenthal and William Suttell
• Amelia Mostovoy and Elaine Rojas-Castillo

Getting Started

1. Project Idea: Meet with your partner and find existing apps that are similar to what your are thinking of doing. Search on the Web or on the Android or iPhone Market. Come up with a name for your app.

2. Portfolio Page: Create a Portfolio page for your projects under the Projects tab. You can create one page on one partner's portfolio and the second partner can link to that page.

3. Elevator Pitch: Write a 1-minute "elevator pitch" -- i.e., a brief description of your project -- that you can use to "sell" your project idea. Here's a possible template:

   [name of app] is a
   [kind of thing it is]
   for [the people who would use it]
   that, unlike [the major alternatives],
   [the major distinguishing feature of your app]
   

   Be prepared to defend your project idea in class.

4. Design Document: Design your app. What will the user interface look like? How will the user interact with it? What events will be handled? On your portfolio page Include:
   • A snapshot of how the screen will be layed out when the app starts.
   • A series of event-response descriptions -- i.e., for each event that will occur, how will your app respond.

5. Implementation and Testing. Leave ample time to implement and test your app. Have your friends try it. Leave time to get help from the TAs or instructor when you run into debugging issues.

Submitting Your Project