[Tutor] OT: Drag and Drop GUI IDE ideas

[Adam Bark]

Rance Hall <ranceh <at> gmail.com> writes:
> We want the students to develop a small app in the process, It could
> be a firefox extension, mobile phone app, or any other type simple
> structure.
> 
> The catch is that the class is for non-programmers to try to get them
> introduced to the field.  We would like to use a gui ide that can
> essentially hide the code from the programmer and connect widgets with
> the gui.
> 
> We want them to be able to look at the code and analyze it.
> 
> We would prefer open source (read: free as in beer) tools.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas of tools that can do this?
> 
> we are open to any idea, android sdk and gui, ipad sdk and some gui tool, etc.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Rance

Hi, this isn't free but seems to tick all your other boxes
http://radicalbreeze.com/ It gives a graphical representation of your program as
well as access to the source code of your application. It creates code for many
different platforms including mobile ones and it's DRM free.
HTH,
Adam.