PX 2018 - PX/18 Programming Experience

Imagine a software development task: some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. In that room they design and code—and sometimes they discover they need to explore the domain and the nature of potential solutions.
The Programming Experience (PX) Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly (“liveness”); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience?
Here is a list of topic areas to get you thinking:
creating programs
liveness
domain-specific languages
psychology of programming
user studies
visual, auditory, tactile, and other non-textual languages
text and more than text
program understanding
error tolerance
non-standard tools
experience of programming
exploratory programming
The experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop, and in this edition we would like to focus on exploratory programming.