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Visual programming should start in the debugger
Just like CAD didn't make everyone an industrial designer, visual programming isn't going to make everyone a programmer. Whether textual or visual, there'd still be a lot of underlying concepts (and how they are composed) to learn. But still, I think it's underexplored. Most visual programming paradigms focus on coding--the
Once syntax and API are learned, current visual tools don't help solve problems that working programmers have. Visualizing a Hash Mapped Array TrieVisual-spatial reasoning has a great affordance for illustrating states over time. Textual programming takes its cues from step-by-step (imperative), transformations (functional), inferences (logical) reasoning, all analytical traditions.
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