Making Apps

Abstract

In response to the need to broaden participation in computer science, we designed a summer camp to teach middle-school-aged youth to code apps with MIT App Inventor. For the past four summers, we have observed significant gains in youth's interest and self-efficacy in computer science, after attending our camps. The majority of these youth, however, were youth from our local community. To provide equal access across the state and secure more diversity, we were interested in examining the effect of the camp on a broader population of youth. Thus, we partnered with an outreach program to reach and test our camps on youth from low-income high-poverty areas in the Intermountain West. During the summer of 2019, we conducted two sets of camps: locally advertised app camps that attracted youth from our local community and a second set of camps as part of a larger outreach program for youth from low-income high-poverty areas. The camps for both populations followed the same design of personnel, camp activities, structure, and curriculum. However, the background of the participants was slightly different. Using survey data, we found that the local sample experienced significant gains in both self-efficacy and interest, while the outreach group only reported significant gains in self-efficacy after attending the camp. However, the qualitative data collected from the outreach participants indicated that they had a positive experience both with the camp and their mentors. In this article, we discuss the camp design and findings in relation to strategies for broadening participation in Computer Science education.

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“…Computer application programs are often abbreviated as computer apps [1]. Legitimate computer apps in the software industry can serve a wide collection of functions and purposes to the target audience [1,2].…”

“…Computer application programs are often abbreviated as computer apps [1]. Legitimate computer apps in the software industry can serve a wide collection of functions and purposes to the target audience [1,2]. Some legitimate apps enable Classification Models for Preventing Juvenile Crimes Committed with Malware Apps DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.107188 their users to view, upload and share favorite songs and new albums of artists with friends and social groups.…”

“…The functionalities of some of the accessible modern apps in the software industry allow their users to also add or invite people (users) as contacts [1]. Some computer apps allow users to select the kinds of services (such as message or call) of their choice.…”

“…The spectacular developments recorded in the field of software engineering over the years have directly led to the influx of the software industry with series of computer apps such as dating apps, loan apps, games apps, entertainment (or music) apps, image editing apps, cloud data storage apps, messaging (or messenger) apps, discord apps, virtual workspace apps; password managing apps, scanning apps, antivirus apps, backup apps, video streaming apps, TV shows apps, codes and scripting apps, language learning apps, banking apps, cloud apps, presentation apps, reminders apps; apps for apps designers, Photoshop apps, meetings (or virtual) conferencing apps, zip file apps and task-management apps [1,2]. The beauty of these computer apps is that significant numbers of them are widely available and accessible to adults and juveniles to download and easily navigate through them.…”