David Wolber

http://twitter.com/wolberd

San Francisco, California

App Inventor Professor

Areas of Expertise:

  • App Inventor
  • Python
  • CS0
  • CS1
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing
David Wolber is a professor at the University of San Francisco. David teaches App Inventor in his "Computing, Robots, and the Web" course at USF. The apps created by his students- mostly humanities and business majors with no prior programming experience-have been chronicled in articles of the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Tech Crunch and Wired Magazine

David began teaching App Inventor as part of Google's 2009 pilot program involving ten universities. In 2010, he received a grant from Google to work with the App Inventor team and authored the advanced tutorials that appear on the App Inventor site. He is currently writing a book on App Inventor along with Hal Abelson that will be published by O'Reilly in Spring 2011.

App Inventor App Inventor
by Hal Abelson , David Wolber , Liz Looney , Ellen Spertus
May 2011
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99

Creating List-Based Android Apps in App Inventor Creating List-Based Android Apps in App Inventor
by David Wolber
January 2011
Video: $19.99

Connecting to Web Data and APIs with App Inventor Connecting to Web Data and APIs with App Inventor
by David Wolber
January 2011
Video: $19.99

Creating SMS Texting Apps with App Inventor Creating SMS Texting Apps with App Inventor
by David Wolber
November 2010
Video: $19.99

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$200,000 Keck Grant for AppInventor.org

April 05 2013

David Wolber and the University of San Francisco received a $200,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to launch the Democratize Computing Lab at USF.  The Lab’s mission is to  break down the programmer divide and radically broaden and diversify the pool of software creators. The Lab’s strategy is based… read more

Webcast: What's Next for App Inventor?
September 02, 2011
In this webcast, Professor and App Inventor author David Wolber discusses the effect Google's announcement will have on the language and the movement to democratize computing. His book, App Inventor: Create your own Android Apps, with co-authors ...

David Wolber