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Programming with touch?So the iPad has been out for awhile now, and I can only imagine that slates and similar multi-touch devices (e.g., tables and walls) will become more and more popular. Although these devices supposedly focus on content consumption, they seem to have a lot of potential for creating things...like programs. Has anyone else thought about what a programming language and environment for a multi-touch device would look like? I think free-form textual syntax would probably not work as it is too tedious to type much text in on a virtual keyboard. However, structured editing might be feasible given the direct screen access. Perhaps such a language would be visual based on patches and data-flow connections, maybe Conal's tangible functional programming, or block-based ala Scratch? As far as I know, there are no touch-optimized VPLs out there yet, they are all designed for mice and keyboards. Even at that, most VPLs are for end-users, whereas I'm wondering if we could do serious programming on something like an iPad. By Sean McDirmid at 2010-09-17 08:28 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 11573 reads
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