Future of Coding Weekly 2020/02 Week 1

Psychology of Programming Interest Group Call for Papers

The 31st Annual Meeting of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group will be hosted for the first time in North America, at OCAD University's Inclusive Design Research Centre in Toronto, Canada, during the week of July 29-31, 2020.

From our Community

Catalog of Visual Math Tools (Slack Thread)

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Mike Travers joins our slack and introduces himself and his work. He worked at MIT MediaLab long time ago on Behave! an interesting block based visual language for simple agent programming, that was one of the ancestor of Scratch. He now works on visual programming based on Blockly to help scientist build queries to scientific data (see this presentation).

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GopherCon Europe 2019: Ivan Daniluk - Rethinking Visual Programming Presentation. (Slack Thread) via Edward de Jong

Blog post: Rethinking Visual Programming with Go

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Play: A new approach for creating better mobile apps via Achraf Kassioui (Slack Thread)

Play empowers you to design, build and launch better mobile products, in less time, with fewer barriers - all on your mobile device.

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Mariano Guerra shared a video showing an educational prototype to produce HTML pages using Blockly to learn what HTML structure looks like without having to worry about syntax at first. The prototype is online (in Spanish) and its sources are on GitHub.

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Jonathan Blow talking about his past, of course about games, but also about programming today, open source, C++, Rust, the future of programming, and many other issues people here will be interested in (and/or annoyed by his perspective ;-): On the Metal Podcast: Jonathan Blow (Slack Thread) via Stefan Lesser

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Algojammer is an experimental, proof-of-concept code editor for writing algorithms in Python. (Slack Thread) via Shalabh Chaturvedi

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Internship Opportunities: Designing for spreadsheets and programming languages at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. via Daniel Garcia