Democratizing Computing with App Inventor
David Wolber, Harold H. Abelson, Mark B. Friedman · GetMobile Mobile Computing and Communications · 2015
MIT App Inventor is a visual blocks language that enables beginners and non-programmers to create apps for their phones and tablets. It has empowered thousands to create software with real-world usefulness, and see themselves as creators rather than only consumers in the mobile computing environment. Educationally, it offers a "gateway drug" that can help broaden and diversify participation in computing education.