Entry 2

For this assignment in app inventor I believe I did what was done in class implementing a counter and moving to the next page, I also attempted to write a program that finds a random number and then finds that numbers Fibonacci number (A Fibonacci number is a number where its sum is the sum of the previous two numbers in the sequence). It was a little annoying that you must use global variables and I couldn’t figure out to take in input from the user instead of using a random number. The reason the random number is only from 0 to 50 is because calculating Fibonacci numbers past that would probably be to computationally intensive for this little app inventor emulator to do. The actual logic for the Fibonacci number I looked up online and just implemented it in app invertor logic blocks myself. The for-loop structure is way more complicated then it needs to be for these little Lego building block designs that app inventor uses. Also, I spent about 2 hours trying to get the output to be on the same line instead of being formatted like

Fibonacci number

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You would think that this would be easy to do but I can’t figure it out. Getting the emulator running was it’s worn problem every time I had to use this because every time I wanted to work on the assignment I would have to go through an entire process just to get it working and I think I ended up spending more time setting up the emulator each time as I did making new things in the app and in the end I couldn’t get it to work anymore so that’s why I included a screenshot of the emulator loading in new blocks because that’s what I’ve been looking at trying to fix for the last four hours. I would have rather made my own app from scratch but i realize that’s not possible in this class. This app inventor software I will be glad to get as far away form as possible.