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> If someone can't think about their code, no amount of visualizations is going to help. Most of the article tries to make the point that if someone can't visu
by gcr 14y ago
> If someone can't think about their code, no amount of visualizations is going to help.
Most of the article tries to make the point that if someone can't visualize what their code is doing, they can't think; they can't reason about it.
- pacala 14y agoExactly! There are several levels of learning. At the master level one does his job using muscle memory. Graphics help at the early levels, but to be proficient one needs to master the domain. At that level graphics are slowing down the process, not helping it. Building the right visualisations that hold at master level as well as at novice level holds the promise to expand one logical abilities far beyond what our current ones.