mit app inventor
MIT professor Hal Abelson took the initiative to build a platform to to make app development easy and accessible for people who were non-programmers, more specifically for younger kids. Dr. Abelson had spent decades teaching computer programming to undergraduate students at MIT. For him mobile computing was revolutionary and he came up with a concept to make coding and app development accessible to people outside of the IT sphere.
Mobile app development was largely developed by experts and professional and most mobile apps were written in Objective C, an OS so complicated and difficult even for undergraduate students. But Dr. Abelson's App Inventor changed everything. While most app development softwares were text-based and memorising codes was a big part of the process, the MIT App Inventor is visual and a person who can understand how to drag and drop an icon can create an app. Anyone who can follow a simple set of instructions can create fully functioning apps for tablets and smartphones.
The simplicity and effectiveness of this software motivated educators to use it as a platform to teach young kids about app development. The platform's own initiative also was to encourage kids, specifically girls to use it and create apps that can assist them and the society around them. Because of this initiative, girls from one of the poorest slums of Mumbai, India created apps to uplift their society and provide solutions for prevention from natural disasters that regularly affected their settlement.
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