While the MIT App Inventor platform started out as a way to teach programming skills to young people, it has now evolved to become a powerful tool for creating mobile applications that anyone can use.

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.

Based on MIT’s Scratch coding language made for kids (6-16), the app allows kids to create their own interactive stories and games.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...