Showing posts with label visual programming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visual programming. Show all posts

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Flood

Flood seems to be primarily an editor for solid shapes to be made using 3D fabrication - but to get there, it implements a visual programming language that also embeds JavaScript.

Which is so incredibly cool.

Monday, October 6, 2014

Stamplay: back-end development by drag-and-drop

Here we go, folks. The future. High-level descriptive language (visually expressed) for website construction by component. Exactly what I was thinking about three years ago, only done slicker than I would have managed.

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Visimojo survey builder

Target!  A visual programmer for surveys.  I find this insanely cool.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

James Hague on Visual Programming

Interesting post.  His blog is full of good stuff, though.  Anyway, the idea: graphical presentation of program structure.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Visual programming doesn't work because it fails to scale

Good post on visual programming, the point being that it can't deal with any complexity at all without becoming incomprehensible.

Although you kind of think that maybe it could still work if it's just organized well enough.  There should probably be a limit of 7±2 items on any given view.

Friday, June 1, 2012

Google Blockly

Visual programming at last: Blockly.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

VVVV: a visual programming language

Now ported to Javascript. Very nice. Original implementation at [vvvv.org].

Monday, May 10, 2010

HNN finds another interesting thing

Fabrik, an Apple visual programming toolkit from 1988, has lots of very intriguing features - including bidirectional mapping between objects, and a pervasive use of the dataflow paradigm. (!)