Resources.md

List of relevant research materials & resources

(TODO: Add brief (relevant) descriptions to these) (TODO: Organize (or order) these better)

Viewpoints Research Institute (VPRI)

• Inventing Fundamental New Computing Technologies

• Bret Victor (WorryDream.com)

  • Learnable Programming
  • Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
  • Drawing Dynamic Visualizations
  • Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface
  • Stop Drawing Dead Fish
  • Inventing on Principle
  • The Future of Programming
  • The Humane Representation of Thought
  • The Ladder of Abstraction
  • The Early History of SmallTalk

• Alan Kay - The Future Doesn't Have to be Incremental

• Alan Kay - The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet

• Alan Kay - Is It Really Complex, Or Did We Just Make It Complicated?

• Ian Piumarta - Open Reusable Object Models

• Ian Piumarta - Building Your Own Dynamic Language

• Ian Piumarta - Late Bound Object-Lamba Architectures

• Charles Simonyi - Intentional Domain Workbench

• Peter Rogers - Resource Oriented Programming

• Gerry Sussman - We Really Don't Know How To Compute!

• Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture (OOPSLA)

• Christopher Alexander - Spaces for the Soul

• Linda Rising - The Road, Christopher Alexander, and Good Software Design

• Jane Jacobs - wikipedia: "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (section: significance of sidewalks)

• Douglas Engelbart - The Mother of All Demos

• Rich Hickey - Simple Made Easy

• Jim Coplien - Why DCI is the Right Architecture for Right Now

• Jim Coplien - Reflections on Reflection

• Jim Coplien - Symmetry in Design

• Jim Coplien - How Agile & OOP Have Lost Their Way

• Bob Martin - Screaming Architecture

• Bjarke Ingels - Architectural Alchemy

• Capgemini - Cognitive Dissonance: Usability vs Engineering

• MIT Tech Review - Why Software Is So Bad

• "What To Know Before Debating Type Systems"

• Listerator - How to Implement a Programming Language in JavaScript

• TUNES Operating System (design, never completed or working)

  • "A Useful, Not Expedient, System"
  • "Why a New Operating System?"
  • Overview: "What is TUNES?"

• Toward a better programming (and other entries on this blog)