In a time when technology is rapidly changing, the MIT App Inventor provides an excellent example of how to democratize the process of creation.

After struggling for almost six months to become somewhat proficient at Python, I was extremely impressed with how much I could do using the MIT App Inventor platform.

Many educators have had great success using MIT's Scratch in class to teach similar concepts (the App Inventor's core programmatic interface is based on Scratch's underlying constructs).