Future of Coding

Steve tries to improve programming

























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Backstory

  1. “Bad a math”
  2. Started with LOGO at 11
  3. Learned to “anthropomorphize” with the Turtle
  4. & debugging, and other “computational thinking” skills
  5. Loved math
  6. Curious about PL & education
  7. Went to Penn for three semesters
  8. Dropped out of college
  9. Worked at a startup (Looker)





































Early inspiration

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“Just a matter of months”

With the Silicon Valley mindset, I thought I’d “fix programming” in just no time. Some early prototypes:

  1. Blocks for JQuery
  2. Blocks for VueJS - count TodoMVC
  3. Projectional/Structured Editor for JS
  4. New take on version control / top-down programming





































Slow down & get serious





































Reading History

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Interviews

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Community organizing

Freelancing

The sponsorship and Patreon don’t (yet!) cover it (20%)





































Current research: UI construction

DCTP

Current work: visualizing DCTP





































Mission

End-user programming

Enable all people to modify they software they use in the course of using it.

Other open problems

  1. Extending DCTP for multi-computer computation
  2. Continuing to improve the PX of DCTP
  3. Version Control in a world of many more forks, at many more levels
  4. Migration / adoption to such a world





































Thanks!