Link:: Tags: Author:: Bret Victor
- 3 ways to visualize thingsp
- excel / chart generator
- manually draw on paper or illustrator
- code great thinkers do their creative work via pictures not symbols
- new tool
- fully declarative
- ensures type by only allowing you to drag symbols no reference directly
- scalars and lists play well together (list overpowers so any operation involving list expands out to ilst)
- visualizations/drawings parameterized by data
- snapping (fixed based on data)
- how establish relationships between geometric objects
- concept of idempotent steps
- each operation is an independent step
- can loop over any number of steps to repeat
- composable
- concept of views or “sources” of info and ability to override
- questions do people think in components?
- is there value in helping people create components from
- fully declarative