Journal of Multimedia Information System

Korea Multimedia Society (한국멀티미디어학회)
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A Short Course Development and Analysis to Recognize Importance of Software for Youth using Arduino and App Inventor

  • Shim, Jooeun (Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania) ;
  • Ko, Jooyoung (Department of Multimedia, Andong National University) ;
  • Shim, Jaechang (Department of Computer Engineering, Andong National University)
  • Received : 2015.03.30
  • Accepted : 2015.05.09
  • Published : 2015.03.31
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Abstract

The aim of this study was to develop and analyze a short course educating App Inventor and Arduino that showed the importance of software for youth. The course consists of a total of 10 missions for a 4 hour course divided into 2 parts, each 2 hours respectively. We conducted a basic course of Arduino for hardware and software, Processing for server programming, and App Inventor for programming for smartphones. The final mission was to send a signal to a server with a smartphone and to control light connected to a relay which passes Arduino connected with a server and serial communication. Participants completed 95% of missions, and we found the course had an educational effect for improving creativity and realization of software importance.

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