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.

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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?