Creating software is typically done in text-based environments—but would programming be more accessible with graphical programming tools? Maggie joins Mark and Adam to talk about the relative success of Scratch, Shortcuts, and Zapier; how to make the abstract visible; embodied metaphors; and the false duality of artistic versus logical thinkers. Plus: how to make blinking lights for your Burning Man art installation.
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Show notes
- Maggie Appleton @mappletons
- egghead.io
- Centre for Computing History
- Pacific Pinball Museum
- Nintendo 64
- the noughties or the aughts
- React
- Scratch
- Zapier, IFTTT, Integromat
- low-code / no-code
- Rocky’s Boots
- circuit diagrams
- DrScheme
- Origami Studio
- Muse memo on infinite canvas with Origami screenshot
- LabVIEW
- Logic Pro, Reason
- the environment in Logic
- iOS Shortcuts (née Workflow)
- console loggings
- end-user programming: embodiment
- VS Code, npm, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React hooks
- cultural anthropology
- Geroge Lakoff, Mark Johnson
- embodied metaphors
- Dan Abramov
- Just Javascript
- pointers in C
- Redux actions
- _why’s poignant guide to ruby
- Learnable Programming
- Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations, Beautiful Evidence
- Graphviz DOT graphs
- jigs in wordworking
- Unity
- episode with Geoffrey Litt
- Flutter, SwiftUI
- XState
- Apparatus
- direct manipulation
- Dreamweaver
- Interface Builder
- Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming
- Adafruit
- circuit debouncing with capacitors
- walk uphill in the snow
- Visual Programming Codex
- Whole Code Catalog
