Future of Coding Weekly 2020/08 Week 4

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Our Work

💻 A tool for building interactive coding tutorials out of Git commits via Shawn McKay

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🎥 Terminal experiments via Felix Kohlgrüber

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🐦 Felix Kohlgrüber: Quick demo of another terminal prototype. Features:

• Correct wrapping of logging messages
• Displaying additional information on hover

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🖱️ Code Scrubber via Dominik Jančík

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Did this little prototype to find out how difficult it would be to automatically add scrubbability to numbers in arbitrary text in JS/HTML.

Turns out not too much, would love to see this in online experimental editors such as CodePen, JSFiddle, etc.

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💻 Waypoint provides symbol search and symbol bookmarks via Raathi

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📝 Apparatus with Magnets: Updates via Joshua Horowitz

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I'm prototyping a new approach to drawing dynamic pictures with direct manipulation. So far, I've been calling it "Apparatus with Magnets". We'll see if the name... sticks. 😉

Here's a "project proposal" Progress is slow but steady. Feedback is welcome!

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Conversations

💬 Ope

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What is future of hardware and how will it impact the future of code? What are the most promising approaches to breaking free of Von Neumann bottleneck? <- is this still a thing?

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💬 Orion Reed

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I’m running dangerously low on books and would love some FoC related recommendations.

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🎥 discusses verbalization/vocalization of PLs as part of a larger talk via Nick Smith

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I'm slowly convincing myself that the future of programming includes verbalizability (and thus, natural language).

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💬 I know might be heresy but I'm curious why people like the interaction of scrubbing numbers via Daniel Garcia

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IMO it's hardly discoverable, it lacks reference values to know how far to drag and feels like poor UX.

What others think about it?

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🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxfEbulyFcY via Ray Imber

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Imperative programming and math pedagogy:

Converting an algorithm or concept from a research paper into imperative code is often seen as tedious, but I think the process helps with learning and clarifying understanding. This is an underrated advantage of imperative code.

Thoughts? Do you agree or disagree? How can this idea of "reification" of algorithms be extended to other paradigms?

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Content

🎥 Beautiful code: typography and visual programming via Felix Kohlgrüber

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First talks about how code is still presented like it's the 70s and then goes more into visual programming and what the future of coding might look like.

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📑 Links to the talks from the PL + HCI summer school via Ope

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💻 A blueprint for incrementally teaching programming: hedy via Kartik Agaram

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📝 The Thirty-Million-Line Problem via Kartik Agaram

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Interesting take on what ails software

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📝 ‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth via Christopher Galtenberg

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📝 Notation as a genuine breakthrough in its own right via Ope

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🐦 Quanta Magazine: The lines and squiggles used by Richard Feynman to describe basic particle interactions “revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics.” Our In Theory video shows how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe7atm1x6Mg

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📝 Alan Kay's VPRI's STEPS via Stefan Lesser

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There have been a few projects in the past that have attempted to build complete computing systems (OS, basic services/apps, development environment, sometimes even hardware) with a focus on comprehensibility — a single individual should be able to understand how the whole system works is stated explicitly as a goal. For me instantly STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming project comes to mind, as well as Project Oberon.

What other systems/project like that do you know or what should also be considered as a similar project, even if the stated goals might be different?

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📝 Freedom isn’t Free via Orion Reed

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A critical, unavoidably sociopolitical, and possibly optimistic (depending on your worldview) critique of the open-source movement and it’s philosophical origins that failed to take root. Regardless of your views I think it articulates an undercurrent seen in many discussions within the open source community. I would absolutely love thoughts on this article, as the wider discussions adjacent to it are obsessively interesting to me and have been for a long time.

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📝 Slides from a presentation about a system called Enflame that resides at the intersection of Scratch and SPARQL queries via Jack Rusher

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🎙️ Chris Martens on narrative generation | The Search Space via Chris Martens

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Podcast for folks interested in logic programming and/or languages for modeling virtual worlds

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