ASSESSMENT COVER SHEET

FOR

Subject: COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

TYPE OF
COURSEWORK:
LECTURER:

PROJECT REPORT
UMMU KULTHUM BINTI JAMALUDIN

TITLE:
DUE DATE:
SECTION:

14TH WEEK
03&03A

GGPAD (ANDRIOD APP INVENTING)

22/05/2014

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Name

Matric Number

KEE LI VOON

MG12026

MUHAMMAD HANAFI BIN YUSOF MA11118

*Plagiarism: Plagiarism means to take and use another persons ideas and or manner of expressing them and to pass these off as ones own by failing
to give appropriate acknowledgement. This includes material from any source, staff, students or the Internet published and unpublished works.

INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW
University Malaysia Pahangs (UMP) students from Faculty of Mechanical are
studying Computer Programming as faculty subject.
Computer Programming is a useful skill for engineer nowadays. This is because
works or any design can be easily done by computerized system when there is a complex
calculation and manufacturing process. For example, in the laboratory of the research and
development centre will equip with the advance computer program to obtain an accurate
and precise measurement and calculation to gain success in their invention and
innovation. For the venture of the smart phone in recent years, the population not only
the young generation, have changed their old handphones with keypad with the smart
phone and almost everyone has it. Thus, the computer programming is involved in the
smart phone systems and helped the people to make everything easier and there is no
limitation of the application by using the phone. Computer programming is used in the
design of the application such as Andriod Apps.
PROBLEMS STATEMENT
We are given a project from our Computer Programming lecturer, Dr. UMMU
KULTHUM BINTI JAMALUDIN to invent an application for Android smart phone to facilitate
the certain task of the daily usage.
PROBLEM S INDENTIFICATION
The application that we choose for this project must be fulfilled the requirement of the
project given and aim to make the tasks easier and convenient to organize by the users. It has to
get use of the computer programming skill that we learn in the class and apply in the design of
the Andriod Application.
Regarding to the title or form of the application, we discussed and suggested a few of
applications to be designed. To make sure the application is user-friendly, we made a survey
within our friends. They were willing to use an application that can help them with a recorder or

notebook to write down the events in the academic and also daily life. After collecting the
opinion of the suitable application, we have decided to design an application in note-taking form.
The name of this application is GGPAD (Go Green Pad) as it can reduces the usage of the paper
to save the resources of the Earth.
OBJECTIVES
For any project, the objective is the main element that must have. Therefore, in this
project, I aim to design the suitable application that can make the users daily task more
convenient.
The other objective is to focus on the understanding the usage of the computer
programming in the real life such as inventing an application for smart phones. Moreover, we
can learn and get the chance to explore the Andriod App Inventor for a very first time.

SCOPE
The main scope in this project is using the Andriod AppInventor. Online resources and
Powerpoint documents are the sources which provided important information for this research.
Since the online access is very convenient, I am searching and studying the applications
inventing tutorial that specialized for the Andriod App. Besides that, I find the examples of the
similar application such as application named as Note Taker as a guideline to complete my
project.
MAIN REPORT
Flowchart

Start
Add the detail of the
event

Type the
detail of the
event.

No
Save
Item ?

Yes
The event is
saved!

Display it in
a list

Yes

Delete
Item?
No

Continue
Adding?

No
End

Pick an
event
Yes

Design
When the app is open, the user will enter the events into the textbox. When it is done, the
user will choose to save the text or reedit again without pressing the save button. The application
saved the text according to the timeline and displayed in a list for the user to monitor their tasks
easily. This application allows the user to remove the items and able to select the desired items
from the display list. After removing, it displays only the existed texts. If the user chooses to
continue adding the events, the user can type another event in the textbox. The application can
ends with pressing the return buttons only.
RESULT

DISCUSSION
In the block editor, there has some computer programming concepts which has being taught by
the lecturer in the Computer Programming course. The following concepts used are shown below:
I used the Appinventor block editors to apply some standard set of blocks as follows:

Definition blocks-These blocks are used to define some variable at any time to make
some of the procedural calls, etc.This will be the same concept with the declaration of the
variables in the c programming. And it also can call the functions that stated before to
complete the program.

Text blocks-These blocks are used to perform different set of operations related to text
like compare, split, convert to uppercase or lowercase, etc.The textbox allows the user to
put the input in form of text by themselves, same as scanf().

List Blocks-These blocks are used to perform list operations like making a list, selecting
a list item, inserting into a list, deletion from a list, etc.The list blocks as a list maker, the
will functions to arrange the print out item into a list. For similarity, arrays are used to
store the previous values and display it when we need to. It can print() the results.

Logic Blocks-These blocks are used to perform logical operations like and or and not.The
c programming is also based on complex logic. It performs logically to print out the
accurate outputs.

Control Blocks-These blocks are used to perform operations like if-else,

application. We used to download it from the ready marketed applications from the PlayStore
and installed it in the smart phones without thinking about how it is been developed, we might
think that we dont have the chance or the intelligence to develop the applications like they did.
The App Inventor from MIT really helped us to broaden our minds, we can develop the
applications by ourselves when we dont really have to go specific lessons. With the tutorial and
hard work to do the trial and error, we managed to produce our application, it might look simple
but it needs the effort to program it. It is an interesting experience and what technology can do is
unlimited.

APPENDIX/SOURCE CODE

REFERENCE
1) http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/
2) http://beta.appinventor.mit.edu/