Mobile CS Principles

Welcome to the 2018 edition of the Mobile CS Principles course. Please register to freely view the full curriculum; only Unit 1 and parts of Unit 2 are viewable without registration. To see the updates and changes that were made for this edition of the course, click here.

This course is supported by Mobile Computer Science Principles (Mobile CSP), an NSF-funded effort to provide a broad and rigorous introduction to computer science based on App Inventor, a mobile programming language for Android devices. Mobile CSP is a program of the National Center for Computer Science Education. The course is based on the College Board's emerging Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science Principles curriculum framework for introductory computer science.

In this course you will learn computer science by building socially useful mobile apps. In addition to programming and computer science principles, the course is project-based and emphasizes writing, communication, collaboration, and creativity.

The material on this site is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. CNS-1240841, CNS-1440947, CNS-1637601, CNS-1836990, CNS-1836983, CNS-1837112, and CNS-1837723. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Staff

Ralph Morelli, Trinity College
Jen Rosato, College of St. Scholastica
Chery Lucarelli, College of St. Scholastica
Chinma Uche, Academy of Aerospace and Engineering, Windsor, CT and CTCSTA
Pauline Lake, Trinity College
Cassandra Broneak, College of St. Scholastica
Dave Wolber, University of San Francisco
Beryl Hoffman, Elms College
Lawrence Baldwin, Baldwin Associates

Syllabus

Teach Mobile CSP website Lesson Plans, Assessments, Pedagogy, etc.
Unit 1 - Getting Started: Preview & Setup
Unit 2 - Introduction to Mobile Apps & Pair Programming
(Register for the course to see beyond Unit 2)
Unit 3 - Creating Graphics & Images Bit by Bit
Unit 4 - Animation, Simulation, & Modeling
Create: Programming Performance Task #1
Exam 1 - Midterm
Explore: Impact of Computing Innovations Performance Task #1
Unit 5 - Algorithms & Procedural Abstraction
Unit 6 - Communication Through The Internet (MOVED - old unit 7)
Explore: Impact of Computing Innovations Performance Task #2
Unit 7 - Using and Analyzing Data & Information (MOVED - old Unit 6)
Create: Programming Performance Task #2
Unit 8 - AP CS Principles Exam Prep
Exam 2 - Final
Unit 9 - Beyond the AP CSP Exam
Unit 10 - Additional Resources