The latest learn-to-code kit passing around a digital begging bowl to raise crowdfunds to make its concept fly is called FlowPaw. This education-focused electronics board takes inspiration from the ...

When you want to quickly pull together a combination of media and user interaction, looking to some building blocks for the heavy lifting can be a lifesaver. That’s the idea behind Max, a graphical ...

There is a long history of Visual or Graphical Programming Languages, and most of them make more sense than the name of Microsoft’s Visual Basic, C#, and Visual Studio IDE. Some people don’t like to ...

I've always been a fan of pot pie. Why have a chicken breast, a side of mixed vegetables, and pie for dessert when you can just cram them all into one neat little package? Besides, if I eat pot pie ...

Its graphical dataflow language and block diagram approach naturally represent the flow of data and intuitively map user interface controls to data, so programmers can easily view and modify data or ...

Nvidia has introduced a new graphical programming language that it hopes will revolutionize the way animators make films. Cg is a language to perform graphical instructions -- such as drawing, shading ...

Microsoft .NET's common language runtime (CLR) gets the support of another language courtesy of Softwire Technology's Softwire for Visual Studio .NET. This visual programming environment is an ...

Though PLC (programmable logic controller) programming languages may not receive the attention that general computing programming languages, such as JavaScript, C#, or Python do, they remain critical ...

When I was a kid, I learned to program BASIC on the Apple II. BIG MISTAKE. It set me up for a life of crime. Actually, it was a blast, but I never programmed anything more complicated than a couple ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...