AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.

I corresponded with him in 2003, I think he wanted to do something with Behave! for music.

Behave! explored ways to integrate text and visual programming, and was one of the ancestors of Scratch.

Making one-off block languages for specialized DSLs including generative art (derived from Behave! and Scratch).

The nice thing about agent-based modelling is that a child can understand it (this is the basis for Logo). It's a powerful thinking tool, and much more accessible than more mathy formalisms like CCS or category theory. I've built systems like this in the past, such as Behave! (an animal-behvior modelling environment designed for maximum non-technical accessibility). And see Vivarium Project for a more expansive version of the idea of a learning/simulation environment.

Behave!

30 Oct 2021 - 06 Jul 2022

This was a system I designed and implemented for an exhibit at the (now defunct) Boston Computer Museum. It was an interesting challenge – can you build something that conveys something about programming but is usable and learnable by tourists with short attention spans?

This was done at the Media Lab and predated Scratch. I don't have a patent on programming with blocks but still feel I deserved a bit more credit for developing the ideas.

The block-programming designs started here also made their way into the BioBike VPL, Enflame, and Vaguely. The source is on Github but it depends on a version of Mac Common Lisp and the Mac OS that has been obsolete for decades.