[Yr11 Information Technology] U2O2 - programming resource

[Van Der Westhuizen, Eugene Y]

Thanks everyone for all your suggestions. I am going to try it out at school over the holidays using a smart phone and a tablet rather than using the emulator, and hopefully that will work.

Eugene Van der Westhuizen
Gleneagles Secondary College
Reema Boulevard
Endeavour Hills, 3802
phone: 9708 1319
fax: 9708 1324

From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kevork Krozian
Sent: Saturday, 22 June 2013 6:32 PM
To: 'Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] U2O2 - programming resource

Hi Eugene,

Yes an awesome resource to teach the students mobile applications . There are free texts on line also (http://explore.appinventor.mit.edu/resources?field_resource_lesson_type_tid%5B%5D=23&=Apply  under Resources)or you can download completed applications such as "Where is my Car" which hooks into the mobile device's GPS capability to guide you to your car wherever it was parked.
As for your security issue, one option is a multi-boot environment which we use for different classes such as for Networking where students have greater freedom to change settings and modify IP addresses, proxy servers, etc.
I am not sure whether you can enable additional rights through Group Policies for App Inventor specifically, but I am in the midst of a project for higher level students including enforcing group policies for Windows 7 client computers part of a Win2008, Win2012 and Linux servers and will endeavour to throw this problem in specifically for App inventor and try to give you an answer.
Are your client computers Win7 running off a Win2008 server domain  ?

Take care


Kevork Krozian
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From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Van Der Westhuizen, Eugene Y
Sent: Saturday, 22 June 2013 4:40 PM
To: Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Yr11 Information Technology] U2O2 - programming resource

Hi,

I've found what I think is a great resource to use for programming in unit 2 App Inventor http://appinventor.mit.edu/. It allows students to build Mobil Phone Apps which can be tested on a phone or an emulator. However we don't seem to be able to use it for security reasons, because to run this app you need admin access to the local computer which students don't have. In addition access to command prompt is restricted hence students cannot run the batch file to start the emulator.

Has anyone encountered similar security issues and do you have any suggestions of how we can get around this problem.

Thanks,
Eugene Van der Westhuizen
Gleneagles Secondary College
Reema Boulevard
Endeavour Hills, 3802
phone: 9708 1319
fax: 9708 1324

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