What Is Live Coding? 

From the reading, I managed to gain an insightful understanding of what Live Coding is.From my own perspective, I would claim that it is a practice of improvisatory live performance through the use of code. Ultimately, we use code to connect ourselves to our artistic desires and visions, and doing it in real time means that there is a level of improvisation that live coders indulge in. Therefore I do agree with Ogborn’s resistance to define live coding — as it gives it a fixed state, and does not acknowledge its flexible nature. 

Live coding removes the curtain between the audience and the performer — to project the code from the screen, the audience can connect with the performer by being able to visualise how the programmer thinks in real time. Thus the act of writing in public adds an element of interactivity, honesty, and even creativity — all of which are pillars to the process of live coding.