Yeah, I taught a group of kids to use AppInventor before and for really simple stuff it can be good but if you go beyond that it just feels like you can’t do anything you want to do with it. Here is the code one of my “best students” ended up with for an app I helped him with.
It just feels like the limits of the visual editor make it really difficult to make anything that is the equivalent of even just 100 lines of code.[/quote]
That’s a great example as to why I hate it. I’d be able to read plain old code better than I can read that!