Cognitive load

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 4/23/17 2:59 pm, Keith Martin via use-livecode wrote:
> On 23 Apr 2017, at 8:55, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
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>> I'm not sure why smaller should necessarily be better.
>>
>> Surely a better equation might be how much one gets out for what one 
>> puts in.
>
> Well, that would be *another* measurement – related but not the same. 
> Even harder to measure, I'm sure. The cognitive load of a menu-driven 
> scripting system such as early versions of Flash was very low indeed 
> (despite being rooted in an animation timeline concept) – but it was 
> itself very limited. I think it's good that this Southern Cross U 
> comparison didn't go beyond a set of actual application development 
> tools.
>
> I find the idea of cognitive load measurement extremely interesting. 
> If something's Just Damn Tough to learn it's simply less accessible. 
> It's the broad accessibility of xTalk that I have always found so 
> exciting, from my HyperCard 1.x and SuperCard 1.x days onwards... and 
> it's the relative Just Damn Tough-ness of Objective C that made me 
> bail on my attempts to learn it a few years back. The cognitive load 
> was too much for me. :-/

Personally the Damn Tough-ness of just about everything apart from 
LiveCode is making me worry about my cognitive capacity.

Richmond.
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