A professor of mine and I were discussing this as we were poring over some freshman 1st semester programming projects done by primarily artistic students in Max/MSP, which is extremely similar.
Looking at a program from the scope of functions, it looks pretty unremarkable, but when you scope out to view the scale of functions you can start to make out the flow of control, etc. Even farther out, you can visually see separations of concerns that the student has implicitly created by the arrangement of the code. It was really remarkable viewing the architecture from 10,000 feet like that.
Looking at a program from the scope of functions, it looks pretty unremarkable, but when you scope out to view the scale of functions you can start to make out the flow of control, etc. Even farther out, you can visually see separations of concerns that the student has implicitly created by the arrangement of the code. It was really remarkable viewing the architecture from 10,000 feet like that.
It redefined how I viewed liberal arts students.