poll Do you think the future of programming is Visual Textua

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poll Do you think the future of programming is Visual Textual Other specify in comments

jarm · Answer

Tactile smile <https ieeexplore ieee org iel7 49 5594698 07403840 pdf>

Tudor Girba · Answer

Physical too <https dynamicland org>

Tudor Girba · Answer

However I also believe that the way we create edit software must be distinct from the way we understand read it

jarm · Answer

Code conflates engineering and authorship I think Mr Victor said something along those lines once

Mariano Guerra · Answer

What role do type systems play on physical programming

jarm · Answer

< Mariano Guerra> good question Should your tangibles system allow you to scratch your back with a pen or should that be a type error stuck out tongue I like this paper for discussing the difficulties of integrating tacit real world knowledge and computational affordances

jarm · Answer

gt A prevalent assumption behind interface approaches that employ physical means of interaction is that this leverages users prior knowledge from the real world This paper scrutinizes the assumption that this knowledge can be seamlessly transferred to computer augmented situations gt The affordances of physical objects are potentially endless and users creatively select those that fit their understanding of the system their aims and the situation Designers capability to design affordances into objects let alone restrict them to desired ones is thus limited

Duncan Cragg · Answer

Yeah I replied Other cos it s not a very useful question there ll be both visual and textual aspects

Duncan Cragg · Answer

also don t forget kinesthetic auditory

Duncan Cragg · Answer

what if you re blind

Mariano Guerra · Answer

will someone work on that the current afairs regarding a11y don t give me a lot of hope there confused

Scott Anderson · Answer

I agree with tangible and tactile another relevant resource <http worrydream com ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign >

Scott Anderson · Answer

Long term I think a lot of programming will be declarative Give a tool a set of constraints heuristics or data curated examples and have it generate a program for you The way to define data might be the visual part of the language

Ilari Kajaste · Answer

I think it ll be a combination of textual and visual where visual is meant more of a visualization could just as well be tactile or similar Even now most of coding is a combination of visual and structural almost always represented as visual the code is text and the file system is structural I don t think we ll be getting rid of text in code anytime soon I don t think we should Perhaps eventually yes since what text in code does is describe structures of logic but right now text markup is a powerful interface for doing that It would require coming up with a similarly powerful representation that allows for similarly powerful manipulation of the structure When I talk about powerful I mean how accessible it is for human thought in addition to how fast it is for humans to manipulate The far future of coding might not be textual though And I think there will be growing amount of visual assistance for the structure of code and the text based parts of code will reduce to smaller fragments while the structure takes more priority

Ilari Kajaste · Answer

So I d say we ll be exploring the structure of a code in VR or such while still writing basic logic interactions within it as text instead of connecting blocks or using visual structure of any sort for that