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                     MIT App Inventor is a blocks-based programming tool that allows everyone, even novices, to start programming and build fully functional apps for Android devices. Newcomers to App Inventor can have their first app up and running in an hour or less, and can program more complex apps in significantly less time than with more traditional, text-based languages. Googles Mark Friedman and MIT Professor Hal Abelson co-led the development of App Inventor while Hal was on sabbatical at Google. Other early Google engineer contributors were Sharon Perl, Liz Looney, and Ellen Spertus. App Inventor 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. MIT App Inventor supports a worldwide community of nearly 3 million users representing 195 countries worldwide. The tool’s more than 100 thousand active weekly users have built more than 7 million android apps. An open-source tool that seeks to make both programming and app creation accessible to a wide range of audiences, MIT App Inventor has grabbed the attention of:

• Formal and informal educators who have used MIT App Inventor to introduce programming to their Computer Science students, science club members, after-school programs attendees, and summer campers. Many educators have also started to use MIT App Inventor to develop apps in support of their own instructional objectives.
• Government and civic employees and volunteers who have harnessed the power of MIT App Inventor to develop custom, often hyper-local apps in response to natural disasters and community-based needs Designers and product managers who have seen the potential that MIT App Inventor has to support the iterative design process via rapid prototyping, testing and iteration.
• Researchers who use MIT App Inventor to create custom app in support to meet their data collection and analysis requirements in support of their research in a wide variety of fields from medical to social.
• Hobbyists and Entrepreneurs who have an idea they want to quickly turn into an app without the cost or learning curve that more traditional app creation entails.