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Not bad. Reminds me of Hackety Hack. Bret Victor's criticism of KhanAcademy is just as relevant here http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ http://worrydr
by zalmoxes 12y ago
Not bad. Reminds me of Hackety Hack.
Bret Victor's criticism of KhanAcademy is just as relevant here http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
- yaxu 12y agoI think Bret Victor underplays the importance of liveness ("almost worthless", eh?), and doesn't touch on the possibilities of making programming a shared experience, that is itself culturally meaningful, inclusive activity, e.g. musical. This is what Sam Aaron and other live coders have been working on for the past decade. It's a totally different approach really, through making music together, nonstop for years.. Sonic Pi is impressive and successful because it's grounded in actual arts practice, not extrapolations from rigged demos.
- ThomPete 12y agoI doubt that Bret Victor would be critical to Sonic Pi given his love for Seymore Paperts "Mindstorms" which has a progamming language called Turtle. Sonic Pi is just that the Turtle of music programming environments. It doesn't start with abstraction but with a ground in playability.