Recursive Drawing lets anyone become a programmer regardless of experience

RE: Recursive Drawing lets anyone become a programmer regardless of experience

Former Member — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:04:32 GMT

Pretty interesting! Since I know what the Lindenmayer systems I presume are underlying this look like and how they are made, I can see the potential this has to go in a programming direction. Rather than drawing shapes, what if this same functionality was available for data processing segments such as functions in a visual programming environment? It would most likely be able to make recursive functions much easier to visualize and understand, especially for beginning programmers. Recursion is a topic that lots of people often have trouble grasping until they've banged on it for awhile and messed around with it - exactly what this type of environment makes possible. I think there is definitely a great deal of space to explore in the visual programming arena. No one has yet done it in a way that provides more power and capability than it does get in your way. Once visual programs grow beyond the size that fits on a screen it becomes difficult to move around the UI and keep in mind the overall structure of how data is flowing. Different approaches are needed, and I think this one might be a stab in a direction that might show some promise!

RE: Recursive Drawing lets anyone become a programmer regardless of experience

oneleggedredcow — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:51:04 GMT

Yeah, programming is a stretch, but that looks like a really neat program!

RE: Recursive Drawing lets anyone become a programmer regardless of experience

DAB — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:27:49 GMT

I will agree that it is an interesting drawing program, but I think it is a huge stretch to call this programming.

PLus, we have had these mandlebrot type drawing programs for a while. All you have to do is adjust the various input values to get very interesting visual representations. But this is still not programming.

Just my Opinion,

DAB