Project: I'm building an 'abstract visual debugger,' which aims at clarifying the behavior of algorithms under execution by letting you watch the data they're manipulating.
Screen: http://symbolflux.com/images/avdscreen.png
Quite outdated video: https://youtu.be/sdEo4v2yivM
It works by monitoring data structures (and soon general objects!) in your code, and sending operation data (e.g. element added/removed) to the server app which does all the actual visualization. Different clients can be written for different languages, though I've only written one for monitoring Java code so far (but the clients are semi-trivial to build).
Problem: a lot of what's difficult in programming is that you can't watch the 'state' of your program as its running; we approximate it with print statements etc.—but there is no easy way to view trees, graphs, tables, lists, hashmaps, etc. especially when they are being actively modified by a program.
I'm hoping to have an alpha ready in a week or two. Back to work!
Edit: split into Project/Problem format.
Screen: http://symbolflux.com/images/avdscreen.png
Quite outdated video: https://youtu.be/sdEo4v2yivM
It works by monitoring data structures (and soon general objects!) in your code, and sending operation data (e.g. element added/removed) to the server app which does all the actual visualization. Different clients can be written for different languages, though I've only written one for monitoring Java code so far (but the clients are semi-trivial to build).
Problem: a lot of what's difficult in programming is that you can't watch the 'state' of your program as its running; we approximate it with print statements etc.—but there is no easy way to view trees, graphs, tables, lists, hashmaps, etc. especially when they are being actively modified by a program.
I'm hoping to have an alpha ready in a week or two. Back to work!
Edit: split into Project/Problem format.