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 ...

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 ...

Google Blockly is a graphical language implemented in JavaScript which can compile to JavaScript, Dart or Python. It is open source and a great way to learn to program and an easy way to generate web ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the previous discussion, we started examining on design supports such as MATLAB and Simulink on ARM Cortex-M processor-based microcontrollers. In this installment, we will explore on LabVIEW™, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

To watch it operate, you’d never guess that FireFly Equipment’s ProSlab 155, a 18,000-lb automated sod harvesting machine, was designed without the help of software engineers. When the 29-foot-long ...

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 ...