{"id":1841,"date":"2023-06-15T16:46:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2026-01-11T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:43:08","slug":"low-code-software-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2023\/06\/15\/low-code-software-development\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Low-Code&#8221; software development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/technically.substack.com\/p\/what-is-low-code?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email\">What is Low-Code? &#8211; by Sophie Becker &#8211; Technically (substack.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the linked article.<\/p>\n<p>Way back in my college days, we learned to program in everything from assembly language up through &#8220;high level&#8221; programming languages. Some of us even learned to enter boot strap code using front panel switches to enter machine code as bit patterns on a console!<\/p>\n<p>Today, programming is simplified &#8211; tools like App Inventor illustrate this by using &#8220;drag and drop&#8221; programming methods, assembling programs from components, rather than typing in programing instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Low Code does not necessarily divorce oneself from understanding programming concepts &#8211; but it enables the rapid construction of many functions &#8211; from user interfaces to underlying algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>AI-based systems introduce a new level of automated code assembly. Go to Chat GPT, for example, and ask it to implement a sorting algorithm in Python &#8211; and sure enough, it will generate the source code in Python.<\/p>\n<p>Two or three decades ago, the typical output of a software developer was likely to be one hundred to a few hundred lines of code per day (at best, after integration, testing, and future modifications before final ship). New tools likely increase this by an order of magnitude or more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Low-Code? &#8211; by Sophie Becker &#8211; Technically (substack.com) Read the linked article. Way back in my college days, we learned to program in everything from assembly language up through &#8220;high level&#8221; programming languages. Some of us even learned to enter boot strap code using front panel switches to enter machine code as bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2023\/06\/15\/low-code-software-development\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Low-Code&#8221; software development<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-method","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}