Chapter 01
See the Finished Shop
The teacher demos a working shop app on a live web address. The class studies what it does and how, and each child picks a shop type and sketches their own screen.
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Make a Shop App for Your Neighbourhood Duka
Your child builds a working point-of-sale app for a small Kenyan shop, such as a duka, a juice bar, a salon or a mama mboga stall, and puts it on the web at a real address they can open on a phone. Over 13 live online sessions they learn to show products and prices in KSh, add items to a cart, work out totals, change and receipts, update stock, handle mistakes, save data so the app remembers, and see the day's takings and best seller. They test it in a class Shop Day, fix what breaks, and finish with a live demo. Your child should already know programming basics in any language: variables, decisions, loops and functions. Needs a laptop and internet. No real payments or customer details are used.
Has finished at least one project
What you'll learn
- Show products and prices on a web page with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Model products and sales as data using arrays and objects
- Build a cart with totals, change and receipts in KSh
- Update stock, and handle sold-out items and bad input without crashing
- Save data in the browser so the app remembers between visits
- Test with others, fix bugs and publish the app to a live web address
The course journey
What your child will explore
Follow the course from the first idea to the finished project.
Chapter 02Product Data and Your First Screen
Products as data (arrays and objects) and a first web page that lists them with prices in KSh.
Chapter 03The Cart
Tap a product to add it, and watch the running total update.
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