Rethinking Visual Programming
summary
Claims that Go's simplicity makes it possible to auto-extract spatial code structure and present it as a navigable 3D model; proof of concept parses Go packages, types, methods and interfaces, links them into a concept graph and highlights large imports as visible “elephants.” Built in Go and rendered in the browser with a vector framework and GopherJS, it uses force-directed layout to resolve links, parses Go into a 3D concept graph, and currently implements ~20–30% of the planned features, showing partial but useful results.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:28Textual Programming
- 4:00BlockBased FlowBased
- 6:51Visual Programming
- 8:11Brain 101
- 9:55Temporal Relationships
- 12:58What is Programming
- 15:12Reading Code
- 16:28Naming
- 23:01Offloading
- 23:37How it works
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