When using the text input element, how do you make that text from the user show up on the next screen? In the examples on lesson 11, bubble 1- Where should I eat, the user is able to put their name in and on the following screen their name shows up in the results. I am trying to figure out how the app can use the input for a results page. This is also an issue because students want to use a radio button to collect information then display the information in a results page. Is there a way to do that?
Sorry if this is repetitive, I haven’t seen any other posts like this yet. Thank you for any help you can provide. It would be really helpful if the code was provided to teachers for the examples. I am a visual learner and the text in the resources gets really confusing. I am a lead learner
These are all good questions. They do go beyond the scope of unit 4 because the focus of unit 4 is designing the app and not programming it. I know students would like to go beyond that and start programming and of course, you as the teacher can make that choice to let them do that, but there isn’t explicit instructions provided in unit 4 to do that.
The nitty gritty details of using app lab can be found in the high school CSP Curriculum in units 3 & 4.
Lesson 7 of that module is all about Inputs and Strings and if I had an advanced student who wanted to learn more, I would probably send them the link to that lesson and have them learn from that. Once they mastered that, they may be ready to move on to figuring out how to get the value of a radio button. That will involved some conditionals and event listeners to determine which radio button was pressed.
I don’t have a working prototype of that to share, but it would work somewhat like the example found in this thread where they used a drop down menu and changed the screen color based on that. It may even be easier to use a drop down than a radio depending on what they are doing.
So, again, if the kids are ready for that and you have the time, hopefully here are a few resources, but it goes beyond what most of my students are ready for in unit 4, but may provide some challenging work for students who are earlier finishers!
I really appreciate your timely response. I knew it was probably a little more advanced but I don’t know that my students would have the stamina to learn on their own. We will probably continue to focus on app design and leave the more complicated programming to explore in high school when they do CSP. Your response explained a lot and I really needed the breakdown of it. I only teach discoveries so I don’t know much about the Principles curriculum.
Thank you again!