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by ericingram 4420 days ago
I need a better introduction to understand how flow programming works, and how I might use it. Instead I see a (seemingly) complex graph which I understand represents a program, but it's not clear how this really works in relation to text programming. I could spend hours and hours digging to figure it out, but that could be a waste of time, so I won't do it.

I get text based programming. Find a way to quickly connect that experience with flow programming, and conversion rate on this site will improve.

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This is still beta, so we're mostly trying to reach people who already are doing flow-based or other dataflow programming.

But agreed that we could probably explain things better! Does the description of the concept at http://noflojs.org/ work for you?

If anyone is in the mood to spend some time learning about flow-based programming works, there is a lot of material here: http://www.reddit.com/r/DataflowProgramming/