Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Oct 2006 14:35 UTC
Who wants to be a programmer? Microsoft is hoping everyday folks will take the challenge by using its non-professional programming tools, and other vendors are following suit. Microsoft is poised to tap the nascent market for development tools to enable non-professionals to create applications, having established a team specifically built for this push and planning several initiatives, including a new Web site strictly for beginners.
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2005-11-13
So are you talking about an erector set programming languages where the end user doesn't really program, but rather just moves pre-built blocks of code around?
Yes basically. You'd start with a blank project and have a toolbox of objects (Files, Printers etc.) and you could select those objects and then apply actions to them (Open, read, write, print etc)
Make it like visio where an icon represents a class and the user connects the blocks together by drawing a line. The user would only be able to connect one block to another if the other block had the connectors.
Actually that's not a bad idea.
Not at all.
I guess the article really did not go into detail of how any of these new tools would work, it really only stated that new stuff was coming.