This week, the company released an iPhone app. It’s the first time a programming language has been developed specifically for the phone.

Mobile apps thrive when they allow the user to check, explore or experiment with content in short bursts. Codecademy, meanwhile, is renowned as one of the best ways to learn programming languages ...

If you use several tools, you can switch between them on an app-by-app basis. If you only have command of one programming language, you can probably use it to create apps for the AppUp store now.

These languages will help current and new mobile application developers navigate the programming landscape to code apps that are stable, secure, and compatible with modern mobile architectures.

Young programmers will now be able to code right from their iPhones, as startup Hopscotch plans to release its mobile app for iOS. It will be “the first ever programming language designed to be ...