Yesterday I talked about coding as a narrative. Not just implementing something, but also making that process transparent to others through good storytelling.<\/p>\n
An excellent comment on my post mentioned Quilez\u2019s \u201cPainting a Selfie Girl, with Maths\u201d video. Like many people, I have been very inspired by that video.<\/p>\n
One problem is that it’s a heroic effort, with a one-off result. Quilez is supremely talented, and was also willing to put in the immense work required to produce this beautiful cultural artifact.<\/p>\n
What I am hoping for is lower hanging fruit. How can we empower other programmers to share their stories, without asking them to create an entire system on their own?<\/p>\n
I would like to help make “programming as storytelling” into something that is easy to learn and to use. The goal would be not so much “Hey, I managed to do this”, as it would be “Hey, you<\/i> can do this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday I talked about coding as a narrative. Not just implementing something, but also making that process transparent to others through good storytelling. An excellent comment on my post mentioned Quilez\u2019s \u201cPainting a Selfie Girl, with Maths\u201d video. Like many people, I have been very inspired by that video. One problem is that it’s a … Continue reading “Programming as storytelling made easy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23680,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679\/revisions\/23680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}