It's a Picture! It's a Program! It's Piet! - Exploring Visual Programming Languages

Explore the fascinating world of Piet, an esoteric programming language where programs are created as abstract pixel art. Discover how this unique language uses blocks of color as data and color variations to send instructions to a stack-based interpreter. Learn about Piet's Turing completeness and its ability to compute anything, including writing interpreters for other languages. Delve into a visual exploration of Piet's basic concepts, examine impressive program examples, and gain insights into how this pixel-perfect esolang can inspire and educate about the art of computing. Join Anjana Vakil, a developer advocate at Observable, as she shares her passion for programming and advocates for a more diverse, equitable, and ethical tech industry in this engaging 15-minute talk from !!Con 2021.