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After some brief explanation and demonstration, the students jumped right into work, excited.
                                                                                                                                   They were given a template and a guide to complete the task, which was to develop an app to measure
                                  Mobile Apps                                                                                      body mass index (BMI). With Dr. See and Mr. Peh’s help, students managed to develop the app smoothly.



                        Development Workshop                                                                                             Last but not least, a Q&A session was held. The students’ questions were mainly focused on their

                   by Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TARUC)                                                                academic progression of this special subject at TARUC later when finishing their SPM. There were also
                                                                                                                                   questions on what courses to decide if they are interested in app development. It was a fun-filled as well
                 On the 25th of June 2022, Kuen Cheng              As a start, Dr. See introduced to us operating                  as fruitful day for all of the participants.
           High School’s Academic Department organised  systems including Android, Apple, Tizen, and

           a  hands-on  training  programme  on mobile  KaiOS. In rural areas, they mostly use Tizen and
           application development. It was a Saturday  KaiOS to operate their mobile phones.
           Independent Learning event, open for all Senior
           Middle Two and Junior Middle Two students. The          Next up, there were several programming

           main speaker for this workshop is Dr. See Kwee  languages like Javascript, CSS, and HTML. They
           Teck, while Mr. Peh Guan Soon provided support  are widely used in developing apps, though
           and assisted the students.                        most developers use Java or Swift. For non-
                                                             programming tools, MIT App Inventor is a great

                 The aim of this workshop was to have  software for creating apps. It does not require much
           students learn how to set up and build simple  computer programming or skills to function. It is
           applications in the MIT App Inventor. The  a  cross-platform  software  for  general  purposes
           workshop was held in the School’s Computer Lab  which uses block programming. These are what

           A situated in Block C. Students were required to  makes it easy to use – great for beginners!
           bring their own laptop, mobile phone, and USB
           cable to the workshop.
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                                         Dr. See Introducing MIT App Inventor
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