In a time when technology is rapidly changing, the MIT App Inventor provides an excellent example of how to democratize the process of creation.

1. Master basic coding concepts. 2. Try block-based programming, a great way to start applying the concepts you’ve learned. The websites Code.org and Scratch (scratch.mit.edu) offer fun lessons. 3.

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 ...

The App Inventor source code was released by Google and MIT yesterday as part of a three-month project to create a full-fledged App Inventor server for public use.

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 ...