Entry Date:
November 7, 2012

App Inventor

Principal Investigator Mitchel Resnick

Project Website http://appinventor.mit.edu/


The Center for Mobile Learning is driven by a vision that people should be able to experience mobile technology as creators, not just consumers. One focus of our activity here is App Inventor, a Web-based program development tool that even beginners with no prior programming experience can use to create mobile applications. Work on App Inventor was initiated in Google Research by Hal Abelson and is continuing at the MIT Media Lab as a collaboration with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP).