App inventor at MIT

At MIT, App Inventor will adopt an enriched research agenda with increased opportunities to influence the educational community. In a way, App Inventor has now come full circle, as I actually initiated App Inventor at Google by proposing it as a project during my sabbatical with the company in 2008. The core code for App Inventor came from Eric Klopfer’s lab, and the inspiration came from Mitch Resnick’s Scratch project. The new center is a perfect example of how industry and academia can collaborate effectively to create change enabled by technology, and we look forward to seeing what we can do next, together.
Posted by Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-mit-center-for-mobile-learning-with.html

So he's busy programming Android phones, these days.

In Java no less.

I always figured that Abelson would sabotage MIT's CS department.

>>3
Not surprising, given that he did steal the precious course.

>>2
Does it say that in the article?
I'd guess that he does it in Scala... Probably not Clojure.

>>5
It's a web-based Java applet that generates Scheme code which is a wrapper for the native Java code. Basically, it's a hodgepodge of shit languages.

>>6
SchemeshitNo.
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Yes.

Oh no, my [sup]B[/sup][sub]B[/sub]CODE fail!

>>7
Scheme is shit. Deal with it. It's only championed by academics like those at MIT who are so out of touch with reality that they create worthless shit like Squeak, Scratch and App Inventor with children and non-programmers in mind and end up with a steaming pile of poo that only the most autistic cunts would find engaging. BUT THIS IS SIMPLE AND ELEGANT DAMN IT. USE IT. DRAG AND DROP IS THE FUTURE. CLICK CLICK CLICK.

Then they find people learn better with Python because they're not complete idiots after all and actually enjoy learning programming when the programming language actually does something !

Jesus Christ, who would have guessed?

>>7,8
This type of failure is irredeemable. Please go back to the imageboards.

since were talking about graphics apps, what is a good turtle graphics application for scheme so I can work through Abeleson's turtle graphics book?

>>11
Turtle graphics application? I can think of only one. It's called polecat kebabs.

>>11
Ah, turtle graphics, another useless children's toy for programmers who lack the creativity to make something useful.

Why Scheme?  Despite its reputation, LOGO is already a functional language, that goes well beyond turtle graphics, but incorporates them into it.

>>10
（　´_ゝ`）

>>9
You don't belong in /prog/. /prog/ is all about using ACADEMIC ABSTRACT BULLSHITE.

>>15
I concur with >>10, although for reasons which I don't feel like bothering explaining.

>>14
Why Logo? Its an obsolete dialect of Lisp, it was a really dumb idea to use that as the language for the book and obviously resulted in that book being ignored

>>18
Because he mentioned he wanted turtle graphics in a functional language.  It's already all there, with nothing extra.