Here is where the real innovation of MIT App Inventor shines through because it makes programming the application very visual. Each function is represented by a colorful jigsaw puzzle-like block.

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 ...

App Inventor — a Google cast-out that is now maintained by MIT — is a graphical tool that unlocks the power of an Android handset to those with the most basic of programming understanding.