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Understanding visual programming

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Understanding visual programming

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- [Instructor] The Bifrost Extension can be described as a visual programming environment. Even if you have no experience or interest in computer programming, don't think that the phrase visual programming is a barrier to entry. The reality is quite the opposite. Bifrost is a great opportunity for everyone, regardless of prior programming experience. One of the primary goals of the Bifrost development team is to make 3D graphics programming more accessible to less technical users. Let's define visual programming and see how it applies to the Bifrost Graph and the Maya Node Graph. A visual programming environment is a graphical user interface that accelerates the process of creating computer code. Instead of a text language such as C++, MEL or Python, a visual programming environment uses a graphical language of interconnected blocks of code called nodes. You're probably familiar with node-based interfaces, such as…

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