Wednesday, 20 May 2020

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing?

Ask HN: Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing?
32 by remolacha | 55 comments on Hacker News.
Visual programming seems to unlock a ton of value. Difficult concepts can more easily be grokked in a visual form. Programming becomes more approachable to first-timers. Since text is difficult to manipulate without a physical keyboard, visual programming opens the doors to doing development on mobile devices. And yet it only seems to be mainstream in education (i.e. Scratch). Why?

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New top story on Hacker News: Deepnote (YC S19) Is Hiring (SF, Europe, Prague)

Deepnote (YC S19) Is Hiring (SF, Europe, Prague) 1 by Equiet | 0 comments on Hacker News.