Metamuse

37 // Visual programming with Maggie Appleton


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Creating software is typically done in text-based environments—but would programming be more accessible with graphical programming tools? Maggie joins Mark and Adam to talk about the relative success of Scratch, Shortcuts, and Zapier; how to make the abstract visible; embodied metaphors; and the false duality of artistic versus logical thinkers. Plus: how to make blinking lights for your Burning Man art installation.

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Show notes
  • Maggie Appleton @mappletons
  • egghead.io
  • Centre for Computing History
  • Pacific Pinball Museum
  • Nintendo 64
  • the noughties or the aughts
  • React
  • Scratch
  • Zapier, IFTTT, Integromat
  • low-code / no-code
  • Rocky’s Boots
  • circuit diagrams
  • DrScheme
  • Origami Studio
  • Muse memo on infinite canvas with Origami screenshot
  • LabVIEW
  • Logic Pro, Reason
  • the environment in Logic
  • iOS Shortcuts (née Workflow)
  • console loggings
  • end-user programming: embodiment
  • VS Code, npm, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React hooks
  • cultural anthropology
  • Geroge Lakoff, Mark Johnson
  • embodied metaphors
  • Dan Abramov
  • Just Javascript
  • pointers in C
  • Redux actions
  • _why’s poignant guide to ruby
  • Learnable Programming
  • Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations, Beautiful Evidence
  • Graphviz DOT graphs
  • jigs in wordworking
  • Unity
  • episode with Geoffrey Litt
  • Flutter, SwiftUI
  • XState
  • Apparatus
  • direct manipulation
  • Dreamweaver
  • Interface Builder
  • Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming
  • Adafruit
  • circuit debouncing with capacitors
  • walk uphill in the snow
  • Visual Programming Codex
  • Whole Code Catalog
  • ...more
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