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visual-programming-codex

Waypoints to the past and future of visual programming.

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Waypoints to the past and future of visual programming.

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Plug — for anyone researching or otherwise interested in visual languages like Luna, I keep a collection of projects, papers, talks, references, and other related media here on…

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Observed mentions: 2019-05-02 04:48:08 UTC to 2025-05-08 04:38:52 UTC.

012342019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Duanemclemore·Jul 15, 2024
I'm going to throw a vote in here for Grasshopper, the visual programming language in Rhino3d as doing it the right way. It is WIDELY used in architectural education and practice alike. Unfortunately, most visuals you'll get of the populated canvas online are crap. And for those of us who make extremely clean readable programs it's kind of a superpower and we tend to be careful with how widely we spread them. But once you see a good one you get the value immediately. Here's a good simple program I made, as a sample. [0] Also, I want to give a shout-out to the Future of Coding community in this. The Whole Code Catalog [1] and Ivan Reese's Visual Programming Codex [2] are great resources in the area. I also have to mention, despite the awful name, Flowgorithm is an EXCELLENT tool for teaching the fundamentals of procedural thinking. [3] One
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neat thing is you can switch between the flow chart view and the script code view in something like 35 different languages natively (or make your own plugin to convert it to your language of choice!) p.s. If you are used to regular coding, Grasshopper will drive you absolutely freaking bonkers at first, but once you square that it is looping but you have to let the whole program complete before seeing the result, you'll get used to it. [0] https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/orig... [1] https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/ [2] https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex [3] http://flowgorithm.org/
In We need visual programming. No, not like that
spiralganglion·Mar 7, 2024
Nice! Have you explored showing live values flowing through the nodes? This seems like a good use of animation. I'll also take a moment to plug my Visual Programming Codex[1], which collects VPLs as though they're butterflies. I'm adding Flyde to the backlog of projects to document, but I'd also suggest looking around there for ideas. There are a ton of valuable new things you can do once you start visualizing programming, especially if you're visualizing the execution behaviour. I'd love to see you push this further. [1] https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex
In Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language

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