What do you folks consider the best visual programming language (i.e. a language in which you write code visually via a drag and drop or other mechanism not something like Visual Basic)? I have a ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...

The software and 32-bit Active X controls let developers use languages such as Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++, Visual C++.NET, and Visual C#.NET. Data-acquisition ActiveX controls stream ...

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

I'm pleased to announce a new series here at GeekMom called Bit by Bit! As a programmer, I've approached the subject of programming on GeekMom a few times. When I do, I often get feedback from parents ...

There’s long been a push to stop writing code as a sequence of lines and go to something graphical, which has been very successful in some areas and less so in others. But even when you use something ...

Google has released a completely visual programming language that lets you build software without typing a single character. Now available on Google Code-- the company's site for hosting open source ...

POPO (Pop On Pop Off) is a 3D visual programming language for virtual reality that makes it possible to program interactive VR environments from inside of those environments. Unlike 2D visual ...

Developing programs with tools that allow menus, buttons, icons and other screen components to be selected from a palette. Also called a "GUI builder," visual programming tools allow the user ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

How good are you at identifying graphical/visual programming languages? Some graphical/visual programming languages you may not know about. This time around we will focus on graphical/visual ...