[Cuis-dev] "A Mind for Numbers"

Casey Ransberger bahweep at icloud.com
Tue Mar 31 22:09:17 PDT 2020


You should look at Ivan Southerland’s SketchPad demo on YouTube, and also check out Seymour Papert’s book, Mindstorms: Powerful Ideas and How to Teach Them. Both had influences on the design of Smalltalk. 

> On Mar 30, 2020, at 3:55 PM, Leam Hall via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
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> Apologies if this is already communal knowledge, but I'm reading "A Mind for Numbers" (Oakley, 2014). The current chapter talked about visualizing, almost anthropomorphicly, the details of whatever you are studying. 
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> It very much reminded me of the GUI nature of Cuis, and Smalltalk. Perhaps there's a bridge that can be built to creatives, and computers? That seems to be the idea behind the "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" paper Casey linked to.
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