{"id":1009,"date":"2015-10-28T11:36:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T18:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appinventor.pevest.com\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2015-10-28T11:36:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T18:36:36","slug":"do-you-need-to-use-a-real-programming-language-to-create-useful-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2015\/10\/28\/do-you-need-to-use-a-real-programming-language-to-create-useful-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you need to use a “real programming language” to create useful applications?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you need to use a “real programming language” to create useful applications?<\/em><\/p>\n

No!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The history of programming begins long ago with the toggling of switches on a console to “program” a system. This primitive method advanced to the use of short text instructions called “assembly language”, which was then followed by\u00a0programming languages such as\u00a0Fortran and others.<\/p>\n

In the past couple of decades, “real software” was often written in C\/C++, Java or C#. Today, “real software” is written in PHP, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Python, VBA and other new programming languages and support libraries.<\/p>\n

Yet there remains an attitude that real software is not real<\/em> unless its written in a traditional programming language (Java, for example). There is a joke, especially among hardware designers, that “real programmers program in solder”!<\/p>\n

So what is a “real programming language”? Realistically, any programming language or system that enables you to deliver a software project that meets the customer needs and requirements is a “real programming language”.<\/em><\/p>\n

Which gets us to the main point – MIT App Inventor is a real programming language – it is just a different way of programming than that used by “traditional”\u00a0solutions. Do not let others tell you that App Inventor is not real programming! (But it is more fun!)
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Do you need to use a “real programming language” to create useful applications? No! The history of programming begins long ago with the toggling of switches on a console to “program” a system. This primitive method advanced to the use of short text instructions called “assembly language”, which was then followed by\u00a0programming languages such as\u00a0Fortran … Continue reading Do you need to use a “real programming language” to create useful applications?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,12],"tags":[19,21,22,28,31,114,151,176,181],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-history","category-stem-education","tag-android","tag-app","tag-app-inventor","tag-appinventor","tag-apps","tag-language","tag-programming","tag-software","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}