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It's a fair question whether the visual/blocks model is appropriate for expert programmers. However, there was some research presented at ICER 2015 showing that visual/blocks languages have benefits for students learning to program. Mark Guzdial had an interesting blog post[1] about it.

[1] https://computinged.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/icer-2015-block...