Tinderbox Meetup, Sun., Jan. 26, 2025 (Video): Speaker—Prof. N. Zimmerman on Literate Programming

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Tinderbox Meetup, Sun., Jan. 26, 2025 (Video): Speaker—Prof. N. Zimmerman on Literate Programming
Level Intermediate
Published Date 1/27/25
Revision 1
Revision Note
Acknowledgments
Type Meetup
Tags Command Line, Dondal Knuth, Emacs, Integrated Development Environment, Julia, Jupyter, Knitir, Latex, Literate Programming, Observable, Pandoc, Python, Python, Quatro, R, R Markdown, RStudio, TeX, Web Assembly, WebR, YAML, 5CKM, 5Cs of Knowledge Management, Eastgate, Identiy Praxis, Inc., Mark Berstein, Michael Becker, Naupaka Zimmerman, University of San Francisco, Tinderbox
Video Length 01:33:41
Video URL https://youtu.be/BEZOOo1rCe0
Chat File TBX Meetup 26JAN25_Chat.txt (3.7 KB)
TBX Version 10
Host Michael Becker

In this Tinderbox Meetup, Prof. Naupaka Zimmerman of the University of San Francisco gave of a history of literate programming and plaintext data analysis and rendering tools, including R, KnittR, Quatro, Pandoc, and more (see resources below). He exposed the idea that "Tinderbox is the galaxy brain on top of all the plain text rendering engines.” and on the benefits of embracing Tinderbox and these tools into your workflow, including:

  • Reusability of content
  • Ability to maintain and update content
  • Ability to track the provenance of thought
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and workstreams over extended periods of time and be able to pick up where you left off

Naupaka discussed how he uses these tools within his own work and teaching We also briefly talked about posters, JS visualization libraries, and @satikusala (Dr. Becker) demonstrated the use of the runCommand to return dictionary definitions back to Tinderbox $Text.

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