Bret Victor's work came to my attention due to a recent video, Inventing on Principle
http://vimeo.com/36579366 If you haven't seen this video, watch it. It's especially appropriate for the FoNC audience. Anyhow, since then I've been perusing Bret Victor's other works at: http://worrydream.com Which, unfortunately, renders painfully slowly in my Chrome browser and relatively modern desktop machine. But sludging through the first page to reach content has been rewarding. One excellent article is Magic Ink: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ In this article, Victor asks `What is Software?` and makes a case that `interaction` should be a resource of last resort, that what we often need to focus on is presenting context-relevant information and graphics design, ways to put lots of information in a small space in a non-distracting way. And yet another article suggests that we Kill Math: http://worrydream.com/KillMath/ Which focuses on using more concrete and graphical representations to teach concepts and perform computations. Alan Kay's work teaching children (Doing With Images Makes Symbols) seems to be relevant here, and receives a quote. Anyhow, I think there's a lot here everyone, if you haven't seen it all before. Regards, Dave
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