Programming and App Creation accessible to a wide range of audiences.

Stats speak for themselves: about 209.1K, as Monthly Active Users; Weekly Active Users: 87.3K, and Total Registered Users: 2.9M. About 195 countries use MIT App Inventor, and nowadays nearly 7.6M apps have been built.

Connectikpeople.co talks about MIT App Inventor, a blocks-based programming tool that can allow everyone, even novices, to start programming and build fully functional apps for Android devices. 

This cutting edge free service to end users, initially developed by Professor Hal Abelson and a team from Google Education while Hal was on sabbatical at Google, runs as a Web service administered by staff at MIT’s Center for Mobile Learning ; a collaboration of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the MIT Media Lab.