Touch Develop Programming directly on Windows Phone

Touchdevelop is an ideal teaching tools for schools, touch develop allows you to program a Windows Phone directly.  You do not need a separate PC. Scripts can perform various tasks similar to regular apps. Any TouchDevelop user can install, run, edit, and publish scripts. You can share your scripts with other people by publishing them to the TouchDevelop script bazaar, or by submitting them as an app to the Windows Phone Marketplace.

How its being used for Education

Ninety eighth-grade students at Mill Creek Middle School in Kent, Washington, learned how to write smartphone programs with TouchDevelop, a Microsoft Research programming environment that enables users to create and test programs on Windows Phone. Most of the students had no prior experience with programming, but after tinkering with TouchDevelop for an hour, students came up with a variety of innovative and fun programs that they proudly demonstrated to their peers.https://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=157112&s=0&e=150 

More about TouchDevelop

• watch videos
• app screenshots
• frequently asked questions
• create apps for Windows Phone Marketplace
• what's new in v2.6, v2.5, v2.4, v2.3, v2.2, v2.1, v2.0, v1.1, v1.0

Teach TouchDevelop Resources

https://www.touchdevelop.com/teach

Resources and Book on TouchDevelopment

https://www.touchdevelop.com/book#single

Discuss and stay up-to-date

• news and blogs
• RSS feeds, live feed, forum
• TouchDevelop on facebook

Research

• research papers and contact information at Microsoft Research
• REST-based service API to access publications programmatically over the web

Contact the TouchDevelop Team

• send email to the TouchDevelop team at Microsoft Research
• ask your question on the TouchDevelop page on Facebook