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0 pointsjkscm12y ago0 comments

But maybe our intuition is wrong here:

"Hundhausen and colleagues found that how the visualizations were used matters a lot. For example, using visualizations in lecture demonstration had little impact on student learning. But having students build their own visualizations had significant impact on those students’ learning." p.118

Oram, Andrew, and Greg Wilson. 2011. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It. Farnham; Cambridge: O’Reilly.

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vanderZwan12y ago· 2 in thread

The Pharo guys are working on that:

https://vimeo.com/channels/ndc2014/97315968

Starts slow, but gets really interesting (disclaimer: I'm a biased interaction designer in this regard, I love this stuff) halfway in.

Pharo might actually become a very good fit for Victor's idea of a big-screen "seeing room" debugging environment, now that I think of it - combine it with some of Victor's idea of drawing dynamic visualisations[1] it would probably be a great environment for creating tools on the fly, and the "everything is an object" model is fitting for the tinkering-mentality of the maker space.

[1] https://vimeo.com/66085662

seanmcdirmid12y ago

Does Pharo support anything more than the standard hot code swapping and live object (but not code) manipulation?

vanderZwan12y ago

If you're familiar with Smalltalk, skip the first twenty minutes of that first video I shared and then stick around for at least fifteen minutes, that's where the customizable views are explained. I think that answers your question - although I don't know how innovative this if you take into account all the alternative UI's that failed. However, the way it is being implemented in Pharo really appeals to me, and I can see it really work well in this "visual debugging seeing room environment thingy" Bret Victor wants us to aim for.

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