Google is giving my class at USF 20 Android smart phones, with a goal of exploring the use of a new visual programming language tentatively called App Inventor for Android. The language (tool) is still restricted to Google’s trusted user program and the university professors they’ve invited for the project.
It’s basically a block language like Scratch for the Mobile Phone. One cool aspect, which I learned 
at a Google Workshop, is the way you use a barcode scanner on your phone to download a newly developed app. to the phone. Very cool.
[...] coauthor of the definitive programming textbook. Also found online: the PR-type announcement, a Professor using it, and @AppInv (nothing juicy on Twitter–it looks like might be a channel for tech support for [...]