Visual Programming

Visual Programming is a form of programming in which a program is defined with the aid of tools that visually represent aspects of the program; its components, control structure, and/or behaviour.

Description

Ultimately, all programs end up in one way or another being executed as a sequence of instructions to a CPU. This linear flow of instructions is quite amenable to representation in a language whose fundamental building block is characters that can be strung together, forming sequences that can be translated into other sequences. The challenge of visual programming tools is to provide intuitive visual building blocks from which programs can be derived, without losing expressivity or paying too great a performance cost.

Visual Programming Environments

bwise
make graphs with blocks and compose programs from them
Drakon
LabVIEW
Maxima
similar to Mathematica
puredata
provides a visual flow-based programming environment
SCIRun
a problem-solving environment, or "computational workbenchn" in which the user connects modules in a visual programming environment.
Visual Basic
VisualLisa
a visual programming environment for Attribute Grammar specifications
Visual RegExp
check regular expressions against data
Visual Tcl

Reference

Visual programming language , Wikipedia

See Also

Graph editors
IDE