I've seen a few good examples of visual programming that work.
(1) Scratch. Scratch is just so much fun. When I have weeks where I'm totally burned out from coding, I can really enough playing around with scratch.
(2) There are quite a few proprietary systems for ETL and data analysis that support the creation of processing pipelines. Often you're snapping together relational operators much in the style of programming Apache Pig. I know data analysts who love working with these systems and when I've needed to make small changes to their analysis pipelines I've found it wasy.
(1) Scratch. Scratch is just so much fun. When I have weeks where I'm totally burned out from coding, I can really enough playing around with scratch.
(2) There are quite a few proprietary systems for ETL and data analysis that support the creation of processing pipelines. Often you're snapping together relational operators much in the style of programming Apache Pig. I know data analysts who love working with these systems and when I've needed to make small changes to their analysis pipelines I've found it wasy.