Introduction

There didn’t seem to be a place on the net where someone could easily see what all the different visual programming languages look like.

So, this post is just a lot of really cool screenshots and images of different visual programming languages. Have fun checking them all out.

If anyone feels we are breaking any copyright and wants us to remove any of these images, please send us an email. We’ve referenced the images.

If you have a visual language you would like to add to this post, then please send us an email.

If you find our work interesting, please follow us @interfaceVision and/or @erichosick for more posts on visual programming languages.

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Visual Programming Languages

There are a lot of domain specific visual languages available to play with and check out. Over the years, we’ve been collecting a list of different environments that we feel, in one way or another, could be viewed as visual programming languages.

We aren’t associated with any of the groups below. We just find their solutions interesting. A lot of these were found by browsing Wikipedia’s Visual Programming Language entry.

SketchPad

Maybe the first. 1963.

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Alice

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

App Inventor For Android

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

ArcGIS Model Builder

Image Source and Web Site

Automator

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Blockly

Image Source and Web Site

Bounce

Image Source and Web Site

Copper Thoughts

Image Source and Web Site

DRAKON

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Etoys / Squeak

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Field

Image Source and Web Site

FL Studio

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Flow Hub and NoFlo

Flow-Based Programming.

Image Source 1, Image Source 2 Web Site 1 and Web Site 2

FlowStone

Image Source and Web Site

GoDot Engine

Image Source and Web Site

Google Web Designer

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Hopscotch

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

HyperCard

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site???

IFTTT

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Illumination Software Creator

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Intentional Technology

Image Source and Web Site

Jeskola Buzz

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Kimono

Web Site

Kodu (Boku)

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

LabView

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Ladder Logic

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Lamdu

Image Source and Web Site

Lava

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Learnable Programming

More of a post on different ways to learn programming.

Image Source and Web Site

Light Table

Chris Granger’s development environment. Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Lily

Really cool and hard to describe. You need to visit their demo web page and watch their videos. Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Limnor Studio

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Little Big Planet

Someone built an An 8-bit Mechanical Adder in LittleBigPlanet

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Minecraft

Considering someone has created a fully programmable computer using Minecraft.

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Minibloq

This has a really cool looking interface. Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Morphic

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Mozilla Appmaker

This was discussed quite a bit on Ycombinator. Image Source and Web Site

MST Workshop

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

NeatTools Visual Programming Environment

Image Source and Web Site

NodeBox

Image Source and Web Site

Nuke

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

NXT-G

Legos!!! Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Open Modelica

Image Source and Web Site

Open Music

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

OpenWire

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Origami

Image Source and Web Site

Piet

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Programming Without Coding Technology

Image Source and Web Site

Prograph

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site??

Pure Data

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Quartz Composer

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Reaktor

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Scheme Bricks

Image Source and Web Site

Scratch

Image Source 1, Image Source 2, Wikipedia and Web Site

Self

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Sextante

Image Source and Web Site

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Sikuli

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

SQL Server Integration Services

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Story Code

Image Source and Web Site

TextIt

Image Source and Web Site

Touch Develop

From Microsoft research.

Image Source and Web Site

Tydlig

Image Source and Web Site

UDK

Image Source and Web Site

Visual JForex

Image Source and Web Site

VUO

Image Source and Web Site

VVVV

Image Source 1, Image Source 2, Wikipedia and Web Site

Windows Workflow Foundation

Image Source, Wikipedia and Web Site

Conclusion

That’s it for now. Please submit any languages you would like to see snapshots of.



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