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

SICM

Sam Ritchie

2020-09-07

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

Nand2Tetris

Glamorous Toolkit

# 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)

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

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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/>






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