Participatory environment

Executable books emphasize understanding pre-existing code, not writing new code

§Enabling environments, games, and the Primer

Most dynamic representations developed for communication aren’t very enabling

Dynamic mediums usually lack an authored time dimension

Readers answer Execute Program’s prompts by executing a program

Execute Program’s lessons are quite short

Sam Ritchie

SICM

2020-09-07

We can develop the mnemonic medium by writing about topics with only moderate domain expertise

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2021-08-01 – 2021-08-07

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# Executable books

(See central discussion in [*How can we develop transformative tools for thought*; subsection “Executable books”](https://numinous.productions/ttft/#how-to-invent-hindu-arabic-numerals)) ::TODO::

*   Some media which gesture in this direction:
    *   [GitHub - norvig/pytudes: Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills.](https://github.com/norvig/pytudes)
    *   [Observable – Use data to think, together. / Observable](https://observablehq.com)
    *   [Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics](https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html)
    *   [Stripe payments integration builder](https://stripe.com/docs/payments/integration-builder)

*   [A gallery of interesting Jupyter Notebooks · jupyter/jupyter Wiki · GitHub](https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-Jupyter-Notebooks)

*   [[zAmLYqPeoZC1t238bZioTXuDwyMAQr4CogW:::Executable books emphasize understanding pre-existing code, not writing new code]]

## Context notes

Jeremy of Climate Plan has been working on some public climate projection notebooks which might make an interesting context for experimenting here. (2021-08-04)

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## References

Matuschak, A., & Nielsen, M. (2019 0). *How can we develop transformative tools for thought?* <https://numinous.productions/ttft>

<https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/>

[Re: serious work and jupyter](message:%3Ca1aaccbd-4aca-684d-65d7-43c6d51edf1f@michaelnielsen.org%3E)






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