Tuesday, July 26, 2016

data flipping

The whole power of computing could be released - for the non-technical user - by reversing the roles of data and content in our thinking as developers.

Developers think computing is managing data, and content gives us a peek into data by putting things on the screen that are derived from data. Flipping this means thinking that computing is managing things on the screen, and data is just for storing the information required to put those things on the screen.