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I've come to a variant definition of constructionism, based not as a way to learn, but construction as a way to explore/understand. Especially when being entrepreneurial, analysis only takes you so far. In one of the YC video things someone said something to the effect that in Silicon Valley more people tend to talk about "what if you could?" rather than "why you can't", which sums it up for me.

The best example of a constructionist approach I can think of is complex adaptive systems (CAS)- the way to understand a CAS is to build one, taking one apart only gets you so far.

I see where you are going about the lisp and I like that! What a cool idea! lispercard? :-)




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