Does such a programming tool exist?

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Does such a programming tool exist?

Post by CarloMano » Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:21 am

I was automatician, and I am used to the logic blocks, grafcets and sequential function charts.

But when It comes to text-programming, I'm a no good.


Are there some programming tools in which you can place some blocks, set their parameters and link them and that converts that mess into C, java or whatever?

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Re: Does such a programming tool exist?

Post by dazim666 » Wed Apr 11, 2012 3:19 pm

While it may not be entirely what you need as it is more of a teaching tool then anything else Panther is a tool based of Scratch that allows simple programming by dragging and editing logic blocks.

While it seems to fit the description of what you want I have only ever used it while I was first learning programming so I am unsure how complex a program you can make with it, I would however suggest you give it a try.


Panther home page:
http://pantherprogramming.weebly.com/index.html
Panther wiki:
http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Panther
Panther to exe converter.
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic ... 92#p925592

I hope this helps.

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Re: Does such a programming tool exist?

Post by Korban3 » Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:33 pm

Blender uses logic bricks. But, using Python code will get you much further with it's Game Engine (Read: Way god damn further)
GameMaker has a sort of logic brick-esque thing. But it's a bit simple for common uses. My best advice (Read: Tough Love) would be to go and learn a text coding language. I started on C++, but I know some people prefer Java or Python. Try one of those three and see where it takes you. You'll definitely benefit a lot from learning one of those.

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Re: Does such a programming tool exist?

Post by CarloMano » Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:17 am

Korban3 wrote:Blender uses logic bricks. But, using Python code will get you much further with it's Game Engine (Read: Way god damn further)
GameMaker has a sort of logic brick-esque thing. But it's a bit simple for common uses. My best advice (Read: Tough Love) would be to go and learn a text coding language. I started on C++, but I know some people prefer Java or Python. Try one of those three and see where it takes you. You'll definitely benefit a lot from learning one of those.
Back in school, we saw turboC and it wasn't a good experience. But I guess I'll have no choice but dealing with the texts if I want to do anything about programming...


Thanks for the answers.

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Re: Does such a programming tool exist?

Post by SteelRaven7 » Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:56 am

Or you could just mess around with logic gates using: http://wronex.com/logicgrid/

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Re: Does such a programming tool exist?

Post by AAorris » Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:57 pm

SteelRaven7 wrote:Or you could just mess around with logic gates using: http://wronex.com/logicgrid/
That's pretty cool! I don't understand it well enough to create any useful functions/outputs though.

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Re: Does such a programming tool exist?

Post by SteelRaven7 » Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:23 pm

AAorris wrote: That's pretty cool! I don't understand it well enough to create any useful functions/outputs though.
:D

There are some examples you can load :P

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Re: Does such a programming tool exist?

Post by CarloMano » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:18 am

http://www.codecademy.com

I found this link somewhere on this forum. That site is pretty cool.

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Re: Does such a programming tool exist?

Post by TheBigCheese » Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:56 pm

Sounds like what you need is LabView. It's generally used for robotics, but it has most of the functionality of text-based programming languages in a drag and drop block environment. It's a bit complicated, but it's used heavily throughout the industry.

http://www.ni.com/labview/


Edit: It won't convert anything into C,C++,Java (though maybe there's a conversion / cross compiler out there), it's a stand-alone tool.

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