Traditional source code may be completely eliminated, or it may be embedded within the graphics components. Many programming environments include a visual editor for the user interface.

Visual programming is one medium of computational modeling. ... In a traditional solid modeling sense, this would be a daunting and painful task to accomplish.

Scratch is a visual programming language developed by MIT's Media Lab back in 2007 to make it easier for kids to learn the foundational knowledge required for programming and other technical skills.