[racket] an interesting article on IDE's for education

Wow, that is very nice!
I believe this two-way tagging approach could be used for virtually
anything, and might be very useful for debugging and many other purposes
(like interactive building).

Laurent

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Antonio Leitao <aml at gia.ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> Some time ago I did a very simple prototype exploring
> some of Bret Victor's ideas in a DrRacket-based IDE
> for Generative Design. It still needs a lot of work (particularly,
> in the performance area) but you can get an idea of what it
> looks like in the following video.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvAXWJbAQco
>
> The video doesn't include sound because, in the first attempts,
> all I could hear was the laptop fans. Anyway, the idea is that
> you click on the code and it shows the shapes that were created
> by that part of the program, and you click on the shapes and it
> shows how they were produced.
>
> Best,
> António.
>
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