How do you visualize code?

Re:How do you visualize code? by pkdpic on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:39PM (#29984593)

Love this question and Im forever inspired by the way engineers visualize their code especially when actually white-boarding (in the before time...). Was hoping to see more actual visualization examples in the article / thread.

If anyone knows of a site or project dedicated to cataloging whiteboard visualizations point me in the right direction.

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Re:How do you visualize code? by hcs on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:33PM (#29986207)

Mynatt analyzed whiteboard use in 1999's "The Writing on the Wall" [1], which led to an interactive whiteboard system called Flatland [2], but it's not focused on programming.

More recent, detailed, and programming-specific is "How Software Designers Interact with Sketches at the Whiteboard" [3].

I had thought I remembered a site with a more thorough treatment of this, but I might have just been thinking of the sprawling Visual Programming Codex: https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13.... (PDF)

[2] https://ecl.cc.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/publications/C... (PDF)

[3] https://cs.gmu.edu/~tlatoza/papers/tse15-sketching.pdf (PDF)

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