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Articulating the ineffable. Programming language theory 🤝 cognitive psychology. PhD @Stanford

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    1. Geoffrey Litt‏ @geoffreylitt 24 Apr 2020

      A hypothesis: for live programming to scale beyond toy programs, generic low-level visualizations aren't enough. Instead, we need Live Literate Programming: better tools for creating *program-specific* views, which communicate our higher-level understanding.

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    2. Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 24 Apr 2020
      Replying to @geoffreylitt

      Bearish on program visualization right now. People have been trying to vis code for half a century, and nothing has worked. All we have are Doxygen inheritance diagrams. My guess: without a more principled understanding of program comprehension, we can't build effective vis.

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    3. Geoffrey Litt‏ @geoffreylitt 24 Apr 2020
      Replying to @wcrichton

      i'm curious, does that include "visualizing the code" and "visualizing the data"? i'm bearish about the former, but believe in the latter

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    4. Geoffrey Litt‏ @geoffreylitt 24 Apr 2020
      Replying to @geoffreylitt @wcrichton

      Geoffrey Litt Retweeted Glen "Electrify everything now" Chiacchieri

      Also curious what you think of Glen's examples in the thread To me, these make it crystal clear that interactive explanations can be really helpful in certain cases -- the question is whether it can be made easier to produce thesehttps://twitter.com/Glench/status/1253739930360123401 …

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      Glen "Electrify everything now" Chiacchieri @Glench
      Replying to @geoffreylitt @girba
      This is another example: http://glench.com/MarilynMaloney/  That demo showed me that with a change of representation even kids could understand a program that would have been basically impenetrable unless a helpful adult was there to explain things.
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      Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 24 Apr 2020
      Replying to @geoffreylitt

      I think those are great! There are many good bespoke program visualizations, Learnable Programming being a classic example. I'm more questioning the viability of *generic* program visualization. I recommend this paper: Steve Reiss, “The Paradox of Software Visualization.” 2005

      11:51 AM - 24 Apr 2020
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        1. Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 24 Apr 2020
          Replying to @wcrichton @geoffreylitt

          And the situation has not demonstrably improved since, at least within the software vis community. See: Merino et al. "Towards Actionable Visualisation in Software Development." 2016pic.twitter.com/x5dwE4ypo1

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        2. Brian Hempel‏ @brianhempel 27 Apr 2020
          Replying to @wcrichton @geoffreylitt

          Thanks for the refs. I’ve thought about repurposing Sketch-n-Sketch for program vis. I don’t have time for it but if someone wants to explore that, feel free to get in touch!

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        1. Geoffrey Litt‏ @geoffreylitt 24 Apr 2020
          Replying to @wcrichton

          thanks for the rec! yeah, totally agree re: generic vis I think Learnable Programming is clever because the viz feels kinda generically applicable, but it's actually quite specific... (I get that the essay is more about the principles than the specific viz, but still.)

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        2. Kyle Parisi‏ @kyleparisi 24 Apr 2020
          Replying to @geoffreylitt @wcrichton

          An idea Ive been working on: http://fluxion.app 

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