Designing an assembly language using MIT App inventor

Many methods for learning software development neglect computer science concepts for real-world application based education. We combine one computer science concept, hardware-software interaction, and apply it in a software development context using MIT App Inventor. Through App Inventor we have created a virtual computer, implemented with its own binary machine language and assembly language. We hope that students using App Inventor to learn software development by creating apps, use our implementation to learn assembly language concepts by adjusting our languages and virtual hardware for their own purposes and interests. This serves both to help them understand a core computer science concept and to present the concept in a way that encourages practical software development skill improvement.