People-Oriented Programming

15/11/2024

The co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, Thomas Kurtz, has died at age 96. A long, productive and immeasurable impactful life:

CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.

04/02/2023

Here' a light 'skim' over the 'low code' (People-Oriented Programming) options from FAAMG - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google):

Did you know that Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google create software modeling / code-generation tools? Get to know them.

27/05/2022

'Low Code Programming' and 'No Code Programming', are just two later (Johnny-come-lately) synonyms for People-Oriented Programming.

13/02/2022

'Low-code' term used for commercial 'Model Driven' software engineering tools (a research area with deep roots and Open Source tools in academia), laments academic researcher:

This was supposed to be a post recommending great open source low-code tools. It ended up being a rant on why there are so few of them.

12/11/2021

Gulp! Nearly choked on my coffee. joins the Java Community Process. And the wheel turns ...

Newfound commitment to the Java platform includes releases of Microsoft Build for OpenJDK in May and Language Support for Java on Visual Studio Code in October.

10/09/2021

Not quite 'programming' but making interactive exhibits for Exhibitions, in museums (big and small), elsewhere, etc. via user-friendly toolkits.
A bit academic, but a good open-sourced (not behind a pay-wall) article: 'Envisioning, designing, and rapid prototyping heritage installations with a tangible interaction toolkit' - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07370024.2021.1946398 #.YTYy90UISJA

13/07/2021

Bafta-nominated young game designers take on real-world issues:

Bafta's nominees for Young Game Designer of the year tackle important issues for a new generation.

15/06/2021

"Put your coding skills to work in taking on the most pressing issue of our time — climate change. Start building your solution for the 2021 Call for Code Global Challenge" $5k to $200k prizes. With or without a starting Team

Commit to the Cause. Push for Change. Answer the Call. Create applications that can have an immediate and lasting impact on humanitarian issues.

31/05/2021

New dawn for ailing language??? that's been haemorrhaging users for a few years now, due to too-frequent-updates and/via changing Oracle business model ... The new Microsoft Build OpenJDK:

After an April preview, Microsoft Build for OpenJDK is now generally available for production deployment.