Update ideas.md

Author: stevekrouse

ideas.md

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-title: Prorotype Ideas
+title: Research Ideas
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-# Prorotype Ideas
+# Research Ideas
 
-* build a Workflowy-like work planning and branching tool (potentially for woofjs.com)
+## Problems to solve
+
+* it's so hard to get a sense of a project via the folders and files abstraction
+
+* higher-order functions are tricky to understand
+
+* it's difficult to keep track of the specific problem we're working on and how it pertains to the larger goal
 
-* work on a front-end, JS-based structured editor like Lamdu
+## Ideas to solve them
 
-* make a reactive WoofJS
+* essay about why we should stop teaching for loops in favor of forEach loops and while loops (is this how python works already?)
 
-* make an Elm game engine
+* mock up what it would look like to have **layers** as the core computational abstraction, allowing users to peak under the hood of their apps, change things, and submit pull requests without leaving the app. 
+
+* can we combine strong types + macros to get natural language coding or less stack overflow?
+
+* continue researching types-as-shapes, potentially even building a prototype
+
+* build a Workflowy-like work planning and branching tool (potentially for woofjs.com)
 
-* make a game engine with an aprt.us interface
+* reactive game engines
+  * make a reactive WoofJS
+  * make a game engine with an aprt.us interface
+  * make an Elm game engine
 
 * continue working on Cycle v2 w/o VueJS (and maybe without Blockly)
 
 * continue working on Rose v1 with text as UI
 
+* work on a Lamdu- or Unison- like structured editor for the web
 
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