Textbook

https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=0AcLK1JljV2faYTh2d3BwNDJqOWdfODFma2Q0d2Rkcw

List of app inventor tutorials & sample apps

http://appsforgood.pbworks.com/App-Inventor

Useful reference explaining the different components

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/reference/

Overview / Cheatsheet of blocks

http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/07/20/overview-of-google-app-inventor-blocks/

some sample apps to download (like drumkit)

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/gallery.html

mole game

http://sites.google.com/site/appinventorhelp/sample-apps/visualizing-data

Official AI tutorials page

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/tutorials/

App Inventor itself

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/

page on learning programming from csf course

loops - http://sites.google.com/site/appinventor/iteration

lists - http://sites.google.com/site/appinventor/lists

if else diagrams

http://www.kdevs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/1732_programming_flowchart_if_else.png

http://book.javanb.com/object-oriented-programming-from-problem-solving-to-java/images/fig142_01_0.jpg

while loop 

http://i2.sitepoint.com/graphics/1732_programming_flowchart_while.png

for vs while

http://euler.vcsu.edu/encore/Slides/flow/for_vs_while.jpg