Shay Pokress, Josh Sheldon and the MIT team have some great tutorials and lessons on the MIT App Inventor site. Check out the beginner tutorials that were part of Hour-of-Code, the printable App and Maker Cards which are perfect for teaching a classroom or workshop session, and the tutorials page that lets you search for the exact type of tutorial you are looking for.

High schools will soon be teaching AP Computer Science Principles, a much more accessible introduction to computer science than the current Java curriculum. This is great news, and Ralph Morelli has developed an AP CSP course that uses App Inventor as the programming language! Check out his curriculum which has been successfully taught by high school teachers who are not formerly trained in Computer Science or Math. An on-line version of the course is coming soon!.

A course that puts Design and CS students in the same room, build apps and learning how talk to each other? Does this exist? Yes, it does. Check out this innovative UMass-Lowell course which put designers and CS majors in the same room, and which was co-taught by a Design CS professors Karen Roehr and Fred Martin. Our universities need more of these collaborations!

Wellesley College is using App Inventor to teach interesting courses with more advanced CS students who are able to explore the mobile world and the web without getting bogged down in programming code. Check out this Inventing Mobile Apps course designed by Professors Eni Mustafaraj and Franklyn Turbak.

Taifun, a German software engineer living in Uvita at the Southern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, in the land of Pura Vida. Pura vida is a typical Costa Rican expression and means more or less "full of life", "this is living!", "going great", "real living","Awesome!" or "cool!". He is an AppInventor enthusiast, and has created a variety of helpful tools for everyone to use. You can visit his site Pura Vida Apps.