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Re:The rise of explorable explanations by hamstersoup on Friday March 06, 2015 @06:40AM (#9156580)
The article presents some great 'explorable explanations' by (or inspired by) Bret Victor.

This really does seem like the future of communicating hard concepts.

At high school I would often write BBC Basic simulations of the dull problems we had been given as homework. I was so much more passionate when I was exploring and learning myself.

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Re:The rise of explorable explanations by TuringTest on Friday March 06, 2015 @08:11AM (#9156817)
> This really does seem like the future of communicating hard concepts.

If we take into account that programming is considered as a way to communicate hard concepts, this should be seen as the future of software development as well. And of hardware tools, and design, and public on-stage performances...

Bret Victor's vision of active exploration is not limited to communication and learning, but all to all creative activities.

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