Acknowledgments
Many people helped bring this book to fruition—mentors, colleagues, reviewers, editors, friends, and family. We thank you all.
Thanks to the reviewers who read the manuscript in various stages of its development and provided invaluable and encouraging feedback: Aditya Sharma, Alain Couniot, Andrei Bautu, Brent Stains, Chris Davis, Ezra Simeloff, Ian Stirk, John D. Lewis, Mark Elston, Michael Knoll, Phanindra V. Mankale, Richard Lebel, Rick Goff, and Ron Sher.
Thanks to the student reviewers from Avon Grove Charter School, West Grove, PA, whose comments helped make this a much better book for our target audience: Alex Wilson, Ian Khan, Jacob Snarr, Jake Kerstetter, James Cottle Vinson, Lewis Arscott, Rhys Cottle Vinson, and their teacher Jacqueline Wilson.
Thanks to Diane Blakeley and the brilliant pupils of Wellfield College for trying out the early chapters of this book and coming up with brilliant ideas for apps, especially the Homework Excuse Generator.
Thanks to the readers of Manning’s Early Access Program (MEAP) for their comments and their corrections to our chapters as they were being written. You helped us to improve our manuscript.
Thanks to Shay Pokress at MIT for keeping us in the App Inventor loop. Thanks for your encouragement and also to the team at MIT who continue to support App Inventor as a great educational tool.