Visual Programming

Introduction

What Visual Programming is not

When the term "visual programming" is said, the typical image that most people see is the line of Microsoft packaged languages that start with the name visual (Visual Basic, Visual C++, etc) or some other visually layed out programs (Paradox, Access, Delphi, etc). However, these are NOT visual programming languages.

What are Visual Basic and Visual C++ if they are not Visual Languages

These type of programming languages are textual languages which use a GUI (graphical user interface) to make the programming of decent interfaces easier. With these languages there is still the need to actually use textual code to create the desired actions...with the interface being the only non-textual portion of the procedure that contains the VISUAL concept.

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