The latest learn-to-code kit passing around a digital begging bowl to raise crowdfunds to make its concept fly is called FlowPaw. This education-focused electronics board takes inspiration from the ...

The Arduino is an excellent first embedded development kit, provides a great introduction to electronics, and has the potential to get children into programming. [David] thinks throwing C at ...

When you want to quickly pull together a combination of media and user interaction, looking to some building blocks for the heavy lifting can be a lifesaver. That’s the idea behind Max, a graphical ...

I looked at LabView more than a decade ago, and was very impressed, but I put it aside as test and measurement (T&M) was not at the top of my list of things to do. In the meantime, LabView has become ...

Nvidia has introduced a new graphical programming language that it hopes will revolutionize the way animators make films. Cg is a language to perform graphical instructions -- such as drawing, shading ...

In the previous discussion, we started examining on design supports such as MATLAB and Simulink on ARM Cortex-M processor-based microcontrollers. In this installment, we will explore on LabVIEW™, a ...

Though PLC (programmable logic controller) programming languages may not receive the attention that general computing programming languages, such as JavaScript, C#, or Python do, they remain critical ...

Its graphical dataflow language and block diagram approach naturally represent the flow of data and intuitively map user interface controls to data, so programmers can easily view and modify data or ...

Computer programming is not just for grownups anymore, thanks to developers at the MIT Media Lab. Researchers in the Lab's "Lifelong Kindergarten Group" have created a program called Scratch, a ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

Anyone that is interested in creating “Internet of Everything” projects may be interested in a new multithreaded programming language which has been specifically designed to bring the Internet of ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...