Since its 2009 creation, more than a million people have
registered to use App Inventor, which is now based out of the MIT Media Lab.
Want the ability to see where your child’s school bus is
idling? Or maybe you’re interested in tracking wild hogs in Alabama? As they
say, there’s an app for that.
But an app like the Ez School Bus Locator wasn’t created by
computer scientists in Silicon Valley. It’s one of more than 3 million projects
created using MIT App Inventor — a number that will continue rising with the
new App Inventor 2, which was launched Dec. 6 in conjunction with Computer
Science Education Week.