Different Programming Metaphors

Its interesting that for an industry pushing humanity into the future, Software engineering practices have not changed significantly in the last 50 years.  We are still using basic text editors with syntax highlighting, often on machines with hundreds of times the power of the devices they were originally designed for, an irony highlighted by Bret Victor in his talk linked below

I have been thinking about this for a while and collecting links on different ideas around this for the last few years. The deck below collects some of these ideas. If you have others that could be added, please leave a comment.

Other Links

An interesting article on exploring visual programming in Go. Some interesting points there on why visual programming failed

Author: Arpit Mathur

Arpit Mathur is a Principal Engineer at Comcast Labs where he is currently working on a variety of topics including Machine Learning, Affective Computing, and Blockchain applications. Arpit has also worked extensively on Android and iOS applications, Virtual Reality apps as well as with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML and Ruby on Rails. He also spent a couple of years in the User Experience team as a Creative Technologist. View all posts by Arpit Mathur