We are starting the Business Expo this week. The hardest part is coming up with an idea. It has to be our original idea, has to solve a problem, and has to be something we can build in App Inventor. That's harder than it sounds to come up with!
Once we had some ideas, we started talking to our teammates about what we should do. This helped us refine our app idea. Then, we made up customer surveys. Over Spring Break, we had to ask 20 or more people about what they wanted in an app like ours. These surveys were really helpful. Like, I thought I had a good name, but nobody liked it. They liked another name better, so I changed the name of my app. We also did some research and found out what real apps do and how they solve the same problems we are trying to solve. We made some more changes based on what has been proven to work before.
We're about to miss class for 2 weeks because of PSSA testing. During that time, we will all have appointments to meet with Mrs. Costello to design our logo in Photoshop. Some people already started. It's neat to see an idea we just sketch out in pencil come to life on the computer and be better than we ever imagined. Having a good logo makes it feel more like a real app.
After PSSA, I can't wait to start really coding my app. This is going to sum up everything we have done in this class, and then we can show it off to judges at the Expo.
Created by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), in partnership with Verizon, Startup Tech teaches students coding and entrepreneurial skills. Follow Mrs. Costello's class at Memphis Street Academy as we create apps and plan app-based businesses.
Friday, April 8, 2016
Our First App From Scratch!
This week we experienced one of the hardest challenge perhaps since the beginning of this classes. For the Business Expo, we will be building apps from original ideas, so, to get ready, we had to build a simple app completely from our own ideas. The only guidance we had was that it had to be something to help teens manage their money better.
It was an amazing experience to build an app based on my idea. With my own idea, it's flexible because I can do what I want and not be locked to a certain idea. It's easier to come up with idea that can improve my app because the app is depend on me and I can apply my idea freely with out any restrictions.
What hard is that I have to come up with my own wireframe and coding. There are no hints and minimum help and I have to come up with the app design and coding for the app for it to work. It's such a difficult time to do everything from scratch and have to test the app many times, and also focus so I can find and fix mistakes.
Before I started the app it was somewhat overwhelming because I thought it was going to be hard and I had to start everything from scratch with no hint and minimum help from the teacher. But after I finish the app, I realized that it's not as hard as I though it would be. Going into the expo, I am confident in my self that I could develop an app.
It was an amazing experience to build an app based on my idea. With my own idea, it's flexible because I can do what I want and not be locked to a certain idea. It's easier to come up with idea that can improve my app because the app is depend on me and I can apply my idea freely with out any restrictions.
What hard is that I have to come up with my own wireframe and coding. There are no hints and minimum help and I have to come up with the app design and coding for the app for it to work. It's such a difficult time to do everything from scratch and have to test the app many times, and also focus so I can find and fix mistakes.
Before I started the app it was somewhat overwhelming because I thought it was going to be hard and I had to start everything from scratch with no hint and minimum help from the teacher. But after I finish the app, I realized that it's not as hard as I though it would be. Going into the expo, I am confident in my self that I could develop an app.
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