I am cross posting this from the Ars forums as I think this is a really neat concept worthy of discussion. Ars covered this about two weeks ago, but I wanted to start a thread where people can link and demo quality apps and/or discuss Google's new App Inventor:
http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/
The code blocks they generate looking surprisingly code like and with an online testing platform coming this Fall it looks like it could be fun to tinker with and could probably make some nifty small projects (e.g. Flash Card Apps for learning languages). In many ways it reminds me of MS's Kodu... if it surivives a couple years I proves to be servicable I may use it to introduce my son to programming.
Did anyone get into the Beta? Any thoughts? Ease of use, flexibility, performance, etc? Is it junk?
http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/
The code blocks they generate looking surprisingly code like and with an online testing platform coming this Fall it looks like it could be fun to tinker with and could probably make some nifty small projects (e.g. Flash Card Apps for learning languages). In many ways it reminds me of MS's Kodu... if it surivives a couple years I proves to be servicable I may use it to introduce my son to programming.
Did anyone get into the Beta? Any thoughts? Ease of use, flexibility, performance, etc? Is it junk?
