Bret Victor: Learnable Programming

Programmers, by contrast, have traditionally worked in their heads, first imagining the details of a program, then laboriously coding them. I don't think this describes most real work done by programmers. Rather, what he says we should do, To enable the programmer to achieve increasingly complex feats of creativity, the environment must get the programmer out of her head, by providing an external imagination where the programmer can always be reacting to a work-in-progress. Is exactly what most programmers already…

I love Bret Victor's essays and talks, they are truly inspiring, including this one. It's too a comprehensive and far reaching essay for me to comment on in general, but I have a few random thoughts to share: Right at the first example what immediately came to mind is simply having a better API. It's a boring but effective solution to say fill(color(r,g,b)). It also teaches data abstraction which is a common and powerful concept in programming (and I think…

Bret Victor's talks, particularly 'Learnable Programming' and especially 'Inventing On Principle' [0] served as the inspiration behind my creation of an IDE called Leporello.js [1]. You can find my interpretation of his example from 'Learnable Programming' here: https://vimeo.com/870708017 To experiment with this example yourself, please follow the link: https://app.leporello.tech/?share_id=ece060b7c63121741be30fd... As a shameless plug, earlier today I featured Leporello.js on Show HN [2]. If you have any…

I have a qweshtion how would i go about learning how to wright programs? I have an idea and want to wright it myself.