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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The programming language C++ builds off of C, and goes back almost as far — dating back to 1979. Bjarne Stroustrup created it while he was working on his PhD thesis, as a way to add additional ...

I'm not looking for a RAD where you have a visual interface editor and then use a more or less traditional text-based programming language to handle logic.