Facilitating application development

A computing system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• computer storage memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, configure the computing system to facilitate application development, the computing system configured to:
• receive input from a designer for designing a module specification that is configured for generating applications within a particular class of applications, wherein the designer specifies how teachers generate applications using the module specification;
• generate the module specification in association with the class of applications, based on the input from the designer, wherein the module specification includes a teach block;
• responsive to a teacher accessing the module specification having the teach block, utilize the teach block that elicits information from the teacher to receive input from the teacher in association with the module specification, wherein at least a portion of the input received by the teach block:
• indicates how to recognize a user intent,
• is used for training a predicate for utilization in association with an application to be developed, wherein the predicate is a function that returns a true or false value, and
• indicates a manner in which to guide a user to utilize the application to be developed;
• and
• generate the application based on the input provided from the teacher, the application being usable by one or more users.