Programming also requires substantial debugging skills, which easily frustrates new learners.

The study time, effort and experience needed often stop nonprogrammers from making software from scratch.

WYSIWYG editors allow you to work in a document as it appears in finished form.

A brief history of no-code software — and its future

The concept was extended to software development in the 1990s.

For example, a user can drag a label and drop it to a website.

The no-code platform will show how the label looks and create the corresponding HTML code.

Traditional programming requires learning a programming language. Image: WILLPOWER STUDIOS/Flickr, CC BY

No-code development platforms generally offer templates or modules that allow anyone to build apps.

Early days

In the 1990s, websites were the most familiar interface to users.

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However, the websites created by these editors were basic static websites.

There were no advanced functions such as user authentication or database connections.

Bubble allows users to design the interface by defining a workflow.

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A workflow is a series of actions triggered by an event.

Meanwhile, Wix launched anHTML5site builder that includes a library of website templates.

WordPress was originally developed for personal blogs.

It has since been extended to support forums, membership sites,learning management systemsand online stores.

The platforms are aimed at designers, entrepreneurs and hobbyists who dont have game development or coding knowledge.

GameMaker is primarily intended for making games with 2D graphics and 2D skeletal animations.

Buildboxis a no-code 3D game development platform.

While using Buildbox, users also get access to a library of game assets, sound effects and animations.

In addition, Buildbox users can create the story of the game.

Games such asMinecraftandSimCitycan be thought of as tools for creating virtual worlds without coding.

No-code is showing up in fields such ase-commerce,educationandhealth care.

I expect that no-code will play amore prominent role in artificial intelligence, as well.

Training machine-learning models, the heart of AI, requires time, effort and experience.

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