Experiences with visual programming in engineering applications

Abstract

In children’s playrooms and in secondary school projects programmable toys and entry level programming courses use visual programming languages instead of the (standard) textual source codes seen in Logo, BASIC, Java. Higher ed- ucation and research also propose visual programming or even (graphical) model based design to steepen the learning curve1 . Industry however appears unfazed with this approach. Textual source code is still the main means of representing software. Based on experience gained in laboratory exercises con- ducted with students of an undergraduate course in mecha- tronics this paper adresses the feasibility and efficiency of this approach.

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