This is what I recommend for K-12 educators who want to have their students create apps in their classes. The tool is free and geared towards the classroom.
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App Inventor College Course part of curriculum at the University of San Francisco
This is very cool. USF has created an App Inventor course that is part of their curriculum. It is designed for non-computer science majors and counts towards a math class. This is a great idea because it exposes students to programming logic and lets them create a mobile app.
Check out the article here: http://teach.appinventor.mit.edu/stories/app-inventor-course-university-san-francisco-usf
App Inventor Beta now available from MIT
Well it looks like MIT has officially made App Inventor available for Android based phones!
Here is the link: http://appinventor.mit.edu/
I have yet to try it out to see how it compares to the older version.
App Inventor Survey
Google app inventor is now in the hands of MIT. For those who use this product, especially my gaming and simulation students who took 595 last spring, please fill out the following survey to help MIT make app inventor better:
Help MIT Study and Extend App Inventor