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37 // Visual programming with Maggie Appleton

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The Learnable Programming Piece

The bretvictor piece has kind of been a seminal launching point for this whole visual programming industry. When you get into the higher level programming languages, sympax is one way to display what that machine code is actually running. And right in the rendered u i is another way of displaying what that machinecode is running. I don't know why there's not a reason why we can't flexibly display this same set of machine code in different ways and turn it on and off. So just flexibly displaying it in different visual formats rather than saying, ok, syntax is the only way i'm going to interact with this code until it becomes the final output.

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