Choc is a tool for thinking powerful thoughts by stepping through code. It is an implementation of several ideas found in Bret Victor’s Learnable Programming. Bret Victor’s Learnable Programming was an eye-opener. This tool is the JavaScript execution of that eye-opener Choc →
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Stop Drawing Dead Fish
People are alive — they behave and respond. Creations within the computer can also live, behave, and respond… if they are allowed to. The message of this talk is that computer-based art tools should embrace both forms of life — artists behaving through real-time performance, and art behaving through real-time simulation. Everything we draw should …
Drawing Dynamic Visualizations
Bret Victor is at it again. This time with a tool to visualizing data. Some interesting user interactions to be seen within this app.
Learnable Programming — Designing a programming system for understanding programs
Bret Victor — of the mind-boggling Inventing on Principle fame — is at it again Khan Academy recently launched an online environment for learning to program. It offers a set of tutorials based on the JavaScript and Processing languages, and features a “live coding” environment, where the program’s output updates as the programmer types. Because …
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Frogatto Editor
In-game level editor like the one we saw in Bret Victor’s aforementioned Inventing on Principle.
Inventing on Principle
Finally got around to watching this awesome presentation. If you haven’t already, I suggest you watch it now; and don’t let it lingering around for two months like I did. mind = blown