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what are your favorite resources for digging deep on the history of visual programming? thank you in advance crowdsourced librarian twitter

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Probably the best place to start: github.com/ivanreese/visu

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would have recs, too

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visual-programming-codex/implementations.md at main · ivanreese/visual-programming-codex

Waypoints to the past and future of visual programming. - visual-programming-codex/implementations.md at main · ivanreese/visual-programming-codex

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If you’re interested in Flow-based programming, this book is excellent technical guide for implementing

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Flow-Based Programming - 2nd Edition

Written by a pioneer in the field, this is a thorough guide to the cost- and time-saving advantages of Flow-Based Programming. It explains the theoretical underpinnings and application of this...

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The Eve devlog has lots of idea gems in the archive incidentalcomplexity.com. And

@ibdknox

has been up to something new in this space recently.

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I find the early CAD/HCI papers to be very inspiring. Negroponte, “Toward a Theory of Architecture Machines”

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Jul 14, 2019

Negroponte, 1969

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I’m begging

to republish The Architecture Machine and Soft Architecture Machines cc

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these cries are not in vain!! cc:

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Ooh, requests: Computer Liberation / Dream Machine?

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A Small Matter of Programming

A Small Matter of Programming asks why it has been so difficult for end users to command programming power and explores the problems of end user-driven appli...

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