meemoo

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by meemoo 13y ago
I'm a JS hacker working on the NoFlo UI, and one of our primary design goals is to make it easy to code new modules on the fly (in the same environment, with tests) when that makes more sense.
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by meemoo 13y ago
I have the same frustration with PD and QC. NoFlo's UI design will make it easy to dive in and edit any module's source, as well as make a new module when code is easier than wiring. We are coders designing this tool for our own w
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by meemoo 13y ago
MIDI tools enabled more people to make new kinds of music. Not everybody will be a programmer, but hopefully a slightly larger percentage of the population will be able to discover the power of algorithmic thinking, and hopefully they wil
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by meemoo 13y ago
The base level of computer literacy should be deeper than "how to use Word" to some level of algorithmic literacy.
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by meemoo 13y ago
Source control is fine in NoFlo's JSON graph format or DSL.
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by meemoo 13y ago
Everyone can't be a doctor, but everyone should have a basic grasp of how their body works in order to live well. Same with programming, if everybody had some base level of algorithmic literacy, they could at least have some idea if a
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by meemoo 13y ago
It comes from "Node Flow." Or reverse psychology?
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by meemoo 13y ago
I agree about making some easy things hard in my experience with Pure Data. NoFlo's UI design makes it frictionless to drop in to edit any component's JS, or build a new component.
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by meemoo 13y ago
How does flow-based programming compare with functional reactive programming, like Elm [1] and Bacon.js [2]? Could those be made visual with a graph editor like this? Bacon.js has some flow diagrams [3] to describe some of its advanced conc
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by meemoo 13y ago
Dataflow is our pre-alpha graph editor. There is a little bit of glue that connects it to NoFlo, and we're designing it to be easy to connect to other contexts. Jump in if you have suggestions: https://github.com/meemoo
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by meemoo 13y ago
I'm imagining a debug view that slows down the flow and shows data traveling through the graph, so you can see it at every step. Or with the circuit board metaphor, a debug "probe" that would show the data (or a graph of data
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by meemoo 13y ago
NoFlo's black boxes can always be opened and modified, whether there is another graph or JavaScript inside. The tools for interactive prototyping for designers will be built on the foundation that we're building now. So the dragga
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by meemoo 13y ago
One method for dealing with this is what Pure Data does. You have a message component that can set a specific property of the next component. [innerHTML "hello"] -> [div]
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by meemoo 13y ago
At the Scratch level I'd rather just write code. NoFlo's design will allow you to open and edit any component in a live graph.
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by meemoo 13y ago
Diving in and editing the component-level JavaScript is a big part of the design. There will be much less friction than opening XCode.
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by meemoo 13y ago
Good suggestion. This will be coming in the project updates.
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by meemoo 13y ago
The UI is currently written in JS with Backbone. Once it reaches a usable-enough state rewriting it in NoFlo is high on my list.
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by meemoo 13y ago
More than making coding easier, I think we're trying to give strict structure to code and pair it with a visual metaphor to help manage complexity. There is a learning curve, but we're designing it to stick close to JavaScript. If
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by meemoo 13y ago
Yes, with Pure Data and Quartz composer. As a JS hacker I wanted to bring that kind of coding to the browser for kids so I made http://meemoo.org/ as my thesis. Now I have linked up with http://noflojs.org/
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by meemoo 13y ago
> Why does that matter? Because I want to play with his Drawing Dynamic Viz demo. http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend...
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by meemoo 13y ago
I have actually been thinking about 1D coding vs 2D coding. Isn't 2D describing nD a little bit closer? Like a photograph of a sculpture... a little easier to get the concept than with written description, no matter how eloquent. Re: t
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by meemoo 13y ago
No reason that source-control for a visual programming language couldn't be visual.
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by meemoo 13y ago
But does he ship?
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by meemoo 13y ago
This reminded me of many hours exploring The Geometer's Sketchpad before my coding days (and before that, a straight edge and compass). Ooh just found http://geogebraweb.appspot.com/app.html I like being able to code in different paradigm
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by meemoo 13y ago
tl;dw: * "Drawing dead fish" refers to using a dynamic medium (the computer) to make static images and unchanging animation. * Games represent the promise of dynamic media: things on the screen have behaviors. * Dynamic behaviors are genera
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by meemoo 13y ago
tl;dw: Design fiction orgs to look up: Superflux, Near Future Lab, Arup Foresight, Royal College of Art, Art Center College of Design, Arizona State University eMerge. Don't need to write science fiction about future possibilities, just mak
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by meemoo 13y ago
The mocking, crotchety tone is Sterling's thing. I appreciate the critique of the scene that I have been working in and around.
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Why build a data flow creative coding platform on the web?(meemoo.org)
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