You either weren't paying close attention or are intentionally misrepresenting it. The mentor doesn't do the programming. And they do show more than "sketch out some mobile screens on paper". There are quite a few scenes showing more than that, though they didn't focus on the nuts and bolts all that much. The film is not a tutorial about how to program. But it was clear that they were doing those things throughout.
There are scenes with several of them using visual programming languages. Those are a popular way for kids to learn to program these days, which means that some educational variants are quite simple to pick up. But others are fully featured languages that can be used to design arbitrarily complex programs, and they can be a reasonable choice for rapid prototyping of a mobile app. A high level, abstract SDK is best to ensure that your code can be ported to a wide range of different device platforms.
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howard-127
8 years ago
I was working the first time I watched so I went back and watched several of the scenes again. Yes, they're using a drawing program in addition to paper, there's a Java book in one scene and one girl mentions Xcode but still not one single line of code. If it was called "SkiGirl," you'd expect to see them ski at some point. There's no code in CodeGirl.
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Anachrony
8 years ago
In movies about the financial industry, how often do they show spreadsheets and screen shots of quantitative analysts tweaking software models? Those people exist, but they instead choose to film the people talking to one another rather than doing slow and meticulous work that doesn't come across in a visual medium like film.
They were coding, they simply focused the camera on their faces instead of what was on the screens most of the time. It's not a coding tutorial. People who come away from this curious about it will need to devote more than a few minutes of clips watching over someone's shoulder to actually learn how to do it themselves.
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