37 // Visual programming with Maggie Appleton

Creating software is typically done in text-based environments—but would programming be more accessible with graphical programming tools? Maggie joins Mark and Adam to talk about the relative success of Scratch, Shortcuts, and Zapier; how to make the abstract visible; embodied metaphors; and the false duality of artistic versus logical thinkers. Plus: how to make blinking lights for your Burning Man art installation. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Maggie Appleton @mappletons egghead.io Centre for Computing History Pacific Pinball Museum Nintendo 64 the noughties or the aughts React Scratch Zapier, IFTTT, Integromat low-code / no-code Rocky’s Boots circuit diagrams DrScheme Origami Studio Muse memo on infinite canvas with Origami screenshot LabVIEW Logic Pro, Reason the environment in Logic iOS Shortcuts (née Workflow) console loggings end-user programming: embodiment VS Code, npm, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React hooks cultural anthropology Geroge Lakoff, Mark Johnson embodied metaphors Dan Abramov Just Javascript pointers in C Redux actions _why’s poignant guide to ruby Learnable Programming Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations, Beautiful Evidence Graphviz DOT graphs jigs in wordworking Unity episode with Geoffrey Litt Flutter, SwiftUI XState Apparatus direct manipulation Dreamweaver Interface Builder Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming Adafruit circuit debouncing with capacitors walk uphill in the snow Visual Programming Codex Whole Code Catalog