{"id":79,"date":"2012-10-26T19:27:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T03:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2012-10-26T19:27:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T03:27:55","slug":"learnable-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/learnable-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Learnable Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/worrydream.com\/LearnableProgramming\/\">insightful essay<\/a> by Bret Victor. Considers programming as systems designed to &#8220;designed to encourage particular ways of thinking.&#8221; Building on Seymour Papert&#8217;s &#8220;Mindstorms&#8221; Victor thoughtfully considers how programming systems might be &#8220;carefully and beautifully designed around the way people think and learn.&#8221; In short, he argues that for programming systems to be learnable, &#8220;we need to understand what the code is doing.&#8221; Moreover, we need to &#8220;visualize data, not code. Dynamic behavior, not static structure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An insightful essay by Bret Victor. Considers programming as systems designed to &#8220;designed to encourage particular ways of thinking.&#8221; Building on Seymour Papert&#8217;s &#8220;Mindstorms&#8221; Victor thoughtfully considers how programming systems might be &#8220;carefully and beautifully designed around the way people think and learn.&#8221; In short, he argues that for programming systems to be learnable, &#8220;we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hubwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}