Visual programming is a broad term that has been used to describe programming with visual aspects. Lets not even discuss visual programming languages, like Quartz Composer.

Please, do go on!

What else is there to say? Visual-enhanced programming environments are quite comment, to varying degrees of visualness. Heck, MS even once put out something called Visual C++ that was not very visual at all (beyond the IDE being a graphical application). The spectrum is so large, that it is not really useful as a label, you have to compare the programming experiences directly.

As for visual languages, that is whole different kettle of fishies not appropriate for this submission.

I was wondering about your comment on quartz composer, before I noticed that "cisual" is a typo ... I started out on Visual Basic, it certainly helped to lower the barrier to entry a little bit. In the end it was all source text, with helpful library component selection (the timer function had an image of a clock) and ui layout editing.