[Cuis-dev] Dynabook and education

[Todd Blanchard]

I think HyperCard got closer to this than any other programming (authoring) tool.

I was a hard core stack head before I became a professional programmer.  I built tons of stacks.

I build a computer system for a blind user (my grandmother) which included a number of tools that could 
be used without a mouse or screen (keyboard navigation with audio feedback) using a combination of 
prerecorded audio snippets and text to speech (I used the TalkingMoose XCMD) and it could access
dialup services via a serial port XCMD.  I was not yet a trained programmer.  I just "made things".

I have never used a more immediate programming environment where cmd-opt clicking on any screen element popped open the code 
editor for that element.

I am always hoping to get back to that simplicity and immediacy but nothing every quite makes it.
If you were ever in the HyperCard community, it was mostly amateurs building their own tools.

To a large extent, I think web browsers have taken its place but working in a web browser is a tangle of files and ugly syntax
loaded with distracting clutter.  But it is still approachable by dedicated amateurs.

> On Jun 15, 2020, at 1:09 AM, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
> 
>> Nowadays, I'd be interested by someone who has a concept for
>> hypermedia live programming (i.e. allowing a computation to start on a
>> page, and use that computation context for the following alternatives
>> pages in a wiki like setup) even if I think nowadays that teaching
>> programming is shortsighted...
> 
> I think programming is something we are all interested, but we want it to be mixed in media as you described it

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