Bricolage programming

Discussed by Turkle & Paper (1990) as a different approach to programming than the traditional structured approach. Mitchell & Bown (2013) position bricolage programming between the structured approach and the trial and error approach.

the bricolage programmer as one who constructs theories by arranging and rearranging; negotiating and renegotiating with code. This approach exists between a structured formation of code and a creative trial-and-error process: Reas, co-creator of Processing, describes writing software as "a process of translating fuzzy ideas from one's mind into a strict notational system. Using this notation as an intermediate step, visual and kinetic ideas manifest themselves in computational machines" (Reas, 2003).

References#

Mitchell, M. C., & Bown, O. (2013). Towards a creativity support tool in processing: Understanding the needs of creative coders. Proceedings of the 25^th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration, 143--146. https://doi.org/10.1145/2541016.2541096

Turkle, S., & Papert, S. (1990). Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete. Signs, 16(1), 128--157.