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End-User Programming (Technium Podcast S02E01)

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End-user programming is a vision of computing that allows people who are not professional software developers to program their own computers.

We discuss some of our favorite end-user programming environments, the qualities that make an end-user programming environment successful and what the world would look like if everyone could program.

Chapters:
0:00: Intros
3:15: What is end-user programming?
6:28: Hypercard: An Early Pioneer
15:22: Quality #1 : Embodiment
17:52: Quality #2: Liveness
19:51: Quality #3: In-Place Toolchain
23:10: Elitism: Programmers vs. Script Kiddies
26:37: Yahoo Pipes: A Web 2.0 Programming Environment
32:25: What makes an environment successful?
40:28: Twitter, Hashtags, and "Situated Software”
47:36: Is programming just inherently hard?
1:04:26: Modern EUP Environments
1:10:39: The World If Everyone Could Program
1:15:01: Programming in the Metaverse

Links/Resources:
[0] https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming/]
[1] https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
[2] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/07/21/software-exoskeletons/
[3] https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situatedsoftware.html

===== About “The Technium” =====

The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.

Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

===== Socials =====

[WEBSITE](https://technium.transistor.fm/)
[SPOTIFY](https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7)

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End-user programming is a vision of computing that allows people who are not professional software developers to program their own computers.

We discuss some of our favorite end-user programming environments, the qualities that make an end-user programming environment successful and what the world would look like if everyone could program.

Chapters:
0:00: Intros
3:15: What is end-user programming?
6:28: Hypercard: An Early Pioneer
15:22: Quality #1 : Embodiment
17:52: Quality #2: Liveness
19:51: Quality #3: In-Place Toolchain
23:10: Elitism: Programmers vs. Script Kiddies
26:37: Yahoo Pipes: A Web 2.0 Programming Environment
32:25: What makes an environment successful?
40:28: Twitter, Hashtags, and "Situated Software”
47:36: Is programming just inherently hard?
1:04:26: Modern EUP Environments
1:10:39: The World If Everyone Could Program
1:15:01: Programming in the Metaverse

Links/Resources:
[0] https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming/]
[1] https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
[2] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/07/21/software-exoskeletons/
[3] https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situatedsoftware.html

===== About “The Technium” =====

The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.

Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

===== Socials =====

[WEBSITE](https://technium.transistor.fm/)
[SPOTIFY](https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7)

  continue reading

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