programming with touchdevelop

class mechanicsworking with a phone in the classroom

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programming with touchdevelop

basic idea…o no PCo only a phone

programming with touchdevelop

daily routineo recap of previous days' lesson(s)o today's new lesson(s)o exercises to try in classo extra exercises for faster learners

and for a challengeo occasional homework

programming with touchdevelop

tutorialso slides may refer to tutorial scripts in the

cloudo denoted by ☁ symbol

☁ http://touchdevelop.com/aojn

o web page shows script source (raw format)o to install, click on the install button, go to

the touchdevelop app and sync.

programming with touchdevelop

publishingo exercises, homework scripts should

be published to the cloud

► this symbol denotes an exercise

• unfinished/in-progress scripts may be published if questions arise

• when you update a script and publish, touchdevelop automatically hides the old version

programming with touchdevelop

socialo in the app or on the web,

customize your profile with a description, web site and picture

o each script has a forum, use it to ask questions

o use main forum for general questions

programming with touchdevelop

user name mapo once each student has logged in touchdevelop,

build a table that maps their user unique ids to their names.• users can change their nickname in the app, user ids

are immutable.

o TIP: avoid using facebook as it is often blocked by school Wi-Fi

o you can subscribe to your students and get notified about each of their published script, comments, etc…

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homeworko students publish scripts with a unique

homework identifier in the description, • e.g. abcd12hw4 where abcd is the initial of our

school, 12 is the year and hw4 stands for homework 4.

o use search in the web site to find and review student scripts• tip: you can search for partial matches, e.g. abcd

o cloud keeps track of variations and base scripts, easy diffing of scripts

programming with touchdevelop

broadcasto broadcasting allows to stream your

touchdevelop to a computero requires a Windows client application

running connected through the same Wi-Fi as the phone

programming with touchdevelop

help and docso students can search for docs (the

slides your are reading as well) through the built-in search from the app

o TIP: use a shared folder to share more documents with your students, it will automatically show up in the Office hub