The best active essays I've seen lately are NetLogo 'models'. While NetLogo was never intended to be a general-purpose programming language, and there are quite a few things it just gets wrong, I'm quite impressed by the diversity of the simulations made with it, as well as the clarity and 'naturalness' of the language syntax, and the consistent focus on explanation and learning. Very constructivist. By the way, a port of the Wandering Letters demo is one of the many included in the standard NetLogo model library. I can't help but recommend it:
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/ -- Max On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]>wrote: > I really like the stuff Ted Kaehler is doing. The text field spec totally > blew my mind. > > I'd like to learn everything I can about active essays. I have an itch to > try my hand at it as a sort of art project, and I've already started > something up. Is there anything in particular that I should look at beyond > the first couple pages of google results? > > -- > Casey Ransberger > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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