• Procedural literacy
  • Expository programming
  • Common language for 6 yr olds -> adults
  • Use by English, History majors

• Learning natural language
  • Mistakes are handled gracefully
  • Strongly stable underlying semantics
  • The system is its own simulation
  • The simulation does not break

• Strategies
  • The system should simulate itself
  • Networked, socially engaging
  • The Logo approach
  • What should programming look like?

• Petri Nets
  • PLACES, ARCS, TRANSITIONS
  • parallel computation
  • colored Petri Nets
  • critters walking along the nets

• Java-like programming
  • proce55ing.net
  • bridging ALGOL and Petri Nets

• Fractal space-time
  • time dilates with scale
  • visible speed of information flow
    • GUI "speed of light"
  • the speed of drawing an ARC
  • smaller components are faster

• Visible computation
  • Everything can open up to show more
  • "It's turtles all the way down."

• What is the role of sound?
  • Ambient (background) audio
  • Verbal language
  • Music
  • Creation by "user"
  • Tools/motivation - using critters

• Story-telling engines?
  • Characters responding in spaces
  • Nested layers of story/world detail

• Heroic narratives
  • Lord of the Rings
  • "The Roaches have no King"
  • not "Black and White"
  • not "The SIMS"

• Turing-equivalent creatures
  • Continuous or discrete grid?
  • Smart places versus smart critters
  • Possible experiments
    • TRUE = vertical travel
    • AND, OR, NOT gates?
    • TRUE/FALSE colored critters
    • ???

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