http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/605480326/beyond-connecting-the-dots
Andrew
[From Adam Matic, 2013.06.1345 CET]
Yes, I think it would be very interesting to have demos on various platforms, such as ‘interactive books’, web-applications, tablet applications, even games.
I like the Nature of Code project by Daniel Shiffman, where he teaches the Processing programming language using examples from physics, neural networks, genetic algorithms and other areas, so you actually learn basics of all those things along with programming. There are “live” examples along code listings. I think the concept is rather nice. Incidentally, it was also crowd-funded.
That is reason I started making little demos in Processing.
As for visualizing complex systems, I spent a day or two admiring Bret Victor’s ideas. He is a brilliant programmer and designer formerly employed in Apple.
Visualizing system behavior over time, adjusting parameters and immediately seeing the effect: http://worrydream.com/#!/LadderOfAbstraction
Also, http://worrydream.com/#!/InteractiveExplorationOfADynamicalSystem
Adam