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Live coding (sometimes referred to as 'on-the-fly programming', 'just in time programming' and 'conversational programming') is a performing arts form and a creativity technique centered upon the writing of source code and the use of interactive programming in an improvised way.

Resources

A curated list of live coding languages and tools

A Principled Approach to Developing New Languages for Live Coding (Article)
About This Issue (Article)
Adrian Ward (Person)
Alan F. Blackwell (Person)
Alex McLean (Person)
Algorithmic Music for Mass Consumption and Universal Production (Article)
Algorithms as Scores: Coding Live Music (Article)
Algorithms Today: Notes On Language Design for Just In Time Programming (Article)
Building the Beat: Local Composer Live-Codes Music (Article)
Code Scores in Live Coding (Article)
Collaboration and Learning Through Live Coding (Article)
Collaborative Textual Improvisation in a Laptop Ensemble (Article)
Composing for Laptop Orchestra (Article)
Computation as Material in Live Coding (Article)
Deadmau5, Derek Bailey, and the Laptop Instrument: Improvisation, Composition, and Liveness in Live Coding (Article)
Designing Constraints: Composing and Performing with Digital Musical Systems (Article)
Editors’ Notes (Article)
Embodiment Of Code (Article)
Embracing the Voice: A Live Coded Performance for Mobile Devices (Article)
Exploratory and Live, Programming and Coding: A Literature Study Comparing Perspectives on Liveness (Article)
FLOSS+Art (Book)
Free as in BEER: Some Explorations into Structured Improvisation Using Networked Live-Coding Systems (Article)
Hacking Choreography: Dance and Live Coding (Article)
Herding Cats: Observing Live Coding in the Wild (Article)
Improvising Formalisation: Conversational Programming and Live Coding (Article)
Inside the Livecoding Algorave Movement, and What It Says about Music (Article)
Interacting with Generative Music through Live Coding (Article)
Iterative Composition, Coding and Pedagogy: A Case Study in Live Coding with EarSketch (Article)
Joanne Armitage (Person)
Joanne Armitage on Feminist Algorave (Episode)
Julian Rohrhuber (Person)
JythonMusic: An Environment for Teaching Algorithmic Music Composition, Dynamic Doding and Musical Performativity (Article)
Live Algorithm Programming and a Temporary Organisation for its Promotion (Article)
Live Coding and Teaching SuperCollider (Article)
Live Coding for Free (Article)
Live Coding in a Scalable, Participatory Laptop Orchestra (Article)
Live Coding in Laptop Performance (Article)
Live Coding of Consequence (Article)
Live Coding Practice (Article)
Live Coding the Law: Improvisation, Code, and Copyright (Article)
Live Digital Notations for Collaborative Music Performance (Article)
Live Music-Making: A Rich Open Task Requires a Rich Open Interface (Article)
Live Notation: Reflections on a Kairotic Practice (Article)
Making Programming Languages to Dance to: Live Coding with Tidal (Article)
Mexico and India: Diversifying and Expanding the Live Coding Community (Article)
Mike Hodnick on Live Coding with TidalCycles (Episode)
Musical Algorithms as Tools, Languages, and Partners: A Perspective (Article)
Nick Collins (Person)
Patterns of User Experience in Performance Programming (Article)
Phonological and Musical Loops in Live Coding Performance Practice (Article)
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