Knowing various programming languages is a no-brainer for engineers, but a basic understanding of the languages can benefit anyone, even if you're not looking to become a master coder.

Also new on Tiobe's top 20 is Scratch, the visual programming language developed by MIT Media Lab for teaching children how to program. Scratch is one option for beginners to learn programming on ...

This time around we will focus on graphical/visual programming languages. There aren't quite as many of these as text-based programming languages, and some are more notable than others.

Here are 11 newer languages that have found their niche. Some are DSLs, designed to do one thing and do it well. Others, seemingly, aspire to save the world. Even if they aren’t what you need ...