{"id":566,"date":"2015-01-29T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appinventor.pevest.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2015-01-29T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:22:14","slug":"positive-comments-about-mit-app-inventor-from-i-programmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2015\/01\/29\/positive-comments-about-mit-app-inventor-from-i-programmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive comments about MIT App Inventor from i-Programmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>App Inventor is an amazing way to create Android applications. You don&#8217;t need to be able to program to use it, but if you can then all the better.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is that as a programmer this is the first time in quite a while that a development environment and its associated &#8220;language&#8221; has brought a smile to my face. It&#8217;s not perfect, but if you give it a little room to grown on you might just smile as well.<\/p>\n<p>Although App Inventor is sometime described as an educational toy that you can use to get kids interested in programming, don&#8217;t let this fool you into thinking that you can&#8217;t do real things with it. It makes a very good prototyping facility and a couple of the prototypes that I have created have actually ended up as final apps that are still in use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-programmer.info\/programming\/other-languages\/8062-getting-started-with-mit-app-inventor-2.html\">Getting started with MIT App Inventor 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have the same thoughts about App Inventor too. App Inventor is much bigger than a tool for teaching programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App Inventor is an amazing way to create Android applications. You don&#8217;t need to be able to program to use it, but if you can then all the better. All I can say is that as a programmer this is the first time in quite a while that a development environment and its associated &#8220;language&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2015\/01\/29\/positive-comments-about-mit-app-inventor-from-i-programmer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Positive comments about MIT App Inventor from i-Programmer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3],"tags":[19,22,130,151],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-inventor-news","tag-android","tag-app-inventor","tag-mit-app-inventor","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}