While MIT App Inventor’s original target was educators and students, offering a free learning tool to lower the barrier of entry to coding, the pair say the success of the software — which has ...

He co-developed MIT’s App Inventor, a free coding platform for newbies learn to create apps. It drew on visual programming concepts developed for Scratch programming language, which allowed ...

Google App Inventor, the simplified Android app creation tool that went dark last year, is getting a new lease on life as an open-source project at MIT. The App Inventor source code was released ...

Back in July 2010, Google announced a nifty educational project called App Inventor. The goal? Give non-programmers a relatively easy way to build their own applications for the Android platform ...

A programming tool gives children the ability to build their own apps—and solve social problems.

Created at MIT Media Labs, the visual language and interface boasts more than 3 million uploaded user projects. Â Kids can begin dragging and dropping sprites and blocks of code to create robust ...

The future of software development isn’t just about who codes faster—it’s about who can express intent more naturally.

When Solomon met with Natalie as part of an Africa Code Week initiative, he emphasized the importance of developing an easy-to-use coding app for phones.

New Programming Language Makes Coding Social Apps Easier The language, Dog, is designed to reduce the complexity of existing programming languages.