The analysis of the conceptual paradigm of the visual programming

Abstract

The article summarizes the notions of «visual programming», «visual environment», «visual language of programming» based on the analysis of current research on visual programming problem. The authors have identified three groups of semantic values of the notion «visual programming»: the creation of applications using a visual development environment; the way to create and design programs and systems by manipulating graphic objects (blocks or elements of flow charts); use of visual programming languages in the program development. The article suggests the following definition of visual programming: visual programming is the process of submission of program structures (algorithms and data) using the multi-dimensional elements (icons, forms, blocks) using visual language of programming.