Eddie wrote:
I have just tried out google app inventor this weekend and would like
to discuss this tool.
1. This is not a true web app as it has a java webstart application to
manage events handling. Only layouts and resource managements are
done within the browser web app.
2. You cannot download java source codes, so you will not be able to
use app inventor as a wizard to start off a project and export it to
eclipse.
Thoughts on the non-programmer programming tool: It is part of a cycle.
I recall as web programming proper was getting started, back in the
90's, there was a rash of Borland HTML Builders and Microsoft Visual
HTML Script Enterprise Editions. I was asked to create the web UI for a
Lotus Notes application using Domino. Domino introduced me to the
concept of software designed according to the specification "we just
need to be able to say we do web stuff." You could build the demo and
nothing else.
Whenever a programming concept gets hot, there is always ink to be
spilled on the first person to say that, no only does this new flavor of
software development make programmers rich, it can make everyone rich,
because it is so advanced, we don't need programmers anymore.
Here's a quote from a CTO of a tool startup in the comments of a
discussion about AJAX from a few years back:
http://okcancel.com/archives/article/2005/09/why-ajax-matters-now.html
"To avoid the confusion we refer to our implementation of high level
languages as Morfik C#, Morfik Java, Morfik Basic and Morfik Pascal
(with more to come). All of these are fully object oriented and support
all object-oriented constructs. When one writes in Morfik C#, one is
thinking and expressing the logic of application in C#."
This was in response to the question, where is the AJAX IDE? Some firm
came forward with the promise of an IDE that lets you write AJAX in C#,
Java, Basic, Pascal, with more to come! Not quite the non-programmer
programmer solution, but the same notion that everyone is so out of
their head with excitement, that their is an opportunity for anyone say
anything, so long as they address the problem of, how do I get a peace
of this pie? Use non-programmers, on in this case, use the programmers
you can find, C#, Java, Basic or Pascal programmers.
"Programmers are a thing of the past" is usually at the end of the hype
cycle, when the gold rush is over, and people have to sober up.
--
Alan Gutierrez - a...@blogometer.com - http://twitter.com/bigeasy
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