Early App Inventor struggles
A transparent look at insufficient tutorials, and Jared gaining superpowers when he gets mad at himself.
All tutorial images (the ones with arrows) belong to MIT and are not my original work.
The "Hello Codi" Roadblock
In designing my first app, I followed thel App Inventor tutorial titled "Hello Codi." It is the most basic app in the world: picture of bee make buzz. I adapted it to make a picture of bowling pins emit a "strike" sound. The image did not show on the interface when imported.
<---What did not work
Sound without the visual
That is what my interface was supposed to look like. I was unable to test the sound for the strike when I was making the app. I clicked "sound 1" and the audio file but neither made the noise. This one might be on me, since I am still new and need to click around some more. Perhaps a YouTube tutorial will help. What I was able to do is posted below. I changed some colors because I wanted to and Go Noles.
<---What is should look like
Making Room for Failure
Simply accepting failure is not enough. To truly learn, one must actively design an environment with built-in room for failure. Building that safety buffer provides the mental space to test varied strategies without missing class or career deadlines. Hopefully I can assist someone in the future with similar problems as I continue refining this project (and get Webador to stop cropping my images).
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