MIT app inventor Glossary

Often in Computer Science, the inputs to procedures or events are called...

• Argument

• behavior

• Block

• Component

The pieces you connect together to tell your app what to do.

• Blocks

• Palette

• Procedure

• Variable

the name of the visual programming editor that App Inventor uses to make the blocks in the browser.

• Palette

• Comment

• Getter

• Blocky

The screen found by clicking the Blocks button on the design screen

• Design

• Blocks Editor

• Drawer

• Dropdown

An app's ________ is how the app responds to user initiated and external events.

• Drawer

• Comment

• Behavior

• Drop Down

Allow you to write reminders or quick remarks on blocks of code

• Drop Down

• Comment

• Designer

• Blocks

Are the pieces of your app that do actions for you found on the design screen.

• List

• Mutator

• Components

• Getter

The screen where you can drag and drop component pieces and design them using the User Interface.

• Designer

• Block Editor

• Getter

• Setter

The second box in the hierarchy of blocks that goes Palette to Drawer to Block

• Event Driven

• Drop Down

• Designer

• Drawer

You can click on this arrow to change the name and function of the block

• Event Driven

• Setter

• Getter

• Dropdown