{"id":1854,"date":"2011-10-23T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2011-10-23T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:34:42","slug":"democratizing-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/10\/23\/democratizing-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratizing Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Just came across a great quote by Chris Crawford&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What we need is a means of democratizing programming, of taking it out of the soulless hands of the programmers and putting it into the hands of a wider range of talents.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(p.359, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Art-Interactive-Design-Euphonious-Illuminating\/dp\/1886411840\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1319402056&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Art of Interactive Design<\/a>, 2003)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right along the lines of what we&#8217;re trying to do with our book due out in December. We&#8217;ve put up a website for the book: <a href=\"http:\/\/books.minkhollow.ca\" target=\"_blank\">books.minkhollow.ca<\/a>. There isn&#8217;t much there yet beyond a brief overview and the table of contents, but this is where we will post color versions of the images, code snippets, and other resources to go with the book.<\/p>\n<h1><strong> <\/strong><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Guide-Computer-Simulations-Games\/dp\/1118009231%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAINA35QALDUPZRHLA%26tag%3Dws%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1118009231\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minkhollow.ca\/becker\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?hash=6ee25f&amp;w=55&amp;h=80&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fecx.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F51T4oV7t0jL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>ISBN 1118009231<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Published by <a title=\"http:\/\/wiley.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/wiley.com\/\" target=\"new\">Wiley<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong><em><a title=\"http:\/\/ca.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-1118009231.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ca.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-1118009231.html\" target=\"new\">Wiley\u2019s Book Site<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1854'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1854);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1854);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1854);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Just came across a great quote by Chris Crawford&#8230;. &#8220;What we need is a means of democratizing programming, of taking it out of the soulless hands of the programmers and putting it into the hands of a wider range of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/10\/23\/democratizing-programming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[316,6,395,47],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-book","tag-computer-science","tag-information-technology","tag-programming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-tU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5054,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/07\/13\/new-book-on-learning-processing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1854,"position":0},"title":"New Book on Learning Processing","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out Jim Parker's most recent book, available only as a E-book. \"100 Cool Processing Sketches\" is a book that purports to teach computer programming by example using a visual language. 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