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Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript

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Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things is taking the tech world by storm, and JavaScript is at its helm. This book will get you to grips with this exciting new technology. Where do Node.js, HTML5 and Windows 10 IoT Core come in with JavaScript and IoT? Why Raspberry Pi Zero rather than Arduino? How do you configure and build an IoT network from scratch? All your IoT JavaScript questions are answered in this book.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript
Credits
About the Author
www.packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating our first application


App Inventor for Android is an open source web application originally provided by Google, and now maintained by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It allows newcomers to computer programming to create software applications for the Android operating system (OS). It uses a graphical interface, very similar to Scratch and the StarLogo TNG user interface, which allows users to drag-and-drop visual objects to create an application that can run on Android devices. In creating App Inventor, Google drew upon significant prior research in educational computing, as well as work done within Google on online development environments.

You don’t need to install any software for APP inventor to execute in your computer; you just need your Gmail account to access the APP inventor interface.

To enter APP Inventor you just need to go to: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/.

Go to create apps to start designing the app.

First we need to have an account with Gmail; we...