The Absent-Minded Professor

About: David Wolber

Website

http://appinventor.org

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David Wolber is a leader in teaching beginners how to code. His focus is empowering artists, designers, kids, women, men, humanity majors, business students--makers of all types--to add coding to their creative arsenals. He wrote the book App Inventor 2: Create your own Android Apps along with App Inventor lead Hal Abelson and Google developers Ellen Spertus and Liz Looney. That book, and Dave's award-winning, video-based site appinventor.org, have introduced thousands of new app builders to the world of code.David is a professor of computer science at the University of San Francisco, where he introduces USF students from across the university to coding and computer science. His course-in-a-box teaching materials have served as a template for hundreds of courses at the K-12 and university levels, as well as for the Mobile Computer Science Principles (mobileCSP.org) Advanced Placement (AP) curriculum.

Posts by David Wolber:

• December 11, 2009 Android App Inventor in Action

• July 14, 2009 Jing is a screen capture tool

• June 30, 2009 Augmented Reality (or Air Graffiti)

• June 30, 2009 App Inventor for Android

• December 5, 2008 Web Programming for Beginners: Google App Engine Rocks!

• November 7, 2008 Who is behind Prop. 8?

• May 16, 2008 Republican-Majority Supreme Court Ruling

• May 16, 2008 Can you believe that back in 2008 it was against the law for gay couples to marry?

• May 8, 2008 GEORGE BUSH IS RIGHT???????

• April 25, 2008 Web 2.0 Panel Facilitated by USF’s J.P. Allen

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