Bret Victor:
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Programming is a way of thinking, not a rote skill. Learning about "for" loops is not learning to program, any more than learning about pencils is learning to draw.
People understand what they can see. If a programmer cannot see what a program is doing, she can't understand it.
Thus, the goals of a programming system should be:
to support and encourage powerful ways of thinking
to enable programmers to see and understand the execution of their programs
A live-coding Processing environment addresses neither of these goals.
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