A Visual Programming Language for Drawing and Executing Flowcharts

With recent advances in graphical user interfaces, more and more tasks on computers have become easier to perform. Out of the belief that creating computer programs can also be one of them, Visual Programming Languages (VPLs) have emerged. The goal of VPLs is to shift a part of work from the programmer to the IDE so that the programmer can focus more on algorithm logic than the syntax of the implementation programming language. In this paper, the methods required to build a VPL are presented, with an emphasis on a novel method of code generation in a WHILE language. Also, the methods for achieving basic principles of VPLs will be shown - suitable visual presentation of information and guiding the programmer in the right direction using constraints.