Microsoft Small Basic

Re:Microsoft Small Basic by WillAdams on Sunday May 14, 2023 @10:24AM (#35938226)

There's an effort at a "Visual" version of this:

https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic

Which I've been trying to determine if I should try.

For a while I thought Livecode (formerly Runtime Revolution), a rebooted HyperCard was going to be a good fit for small, graphical interface projects, but that's not looking so good since they closed the source and changed the license.

I'd really like to find something which is as straight-forward to use as Blockly, but which had a stand-along desktop app/IDE.

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Re:Microsoft Small Basic by WillAdams on Sunday May 14, 2023 @01:43PM (#35939759)

olav mentioned elsethread:

>And, of course, https://gpblocks.org/

which looks to be exactly what I was looking for.

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Re:Microsoft Small Basic by svb_2023 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:51AM (#35958137)

This is the full reference book of sVB. It contains 750 pages full of info and samples. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pCnB4_7pEBc_wT2u258MmutYCuX... sVB is not really small, and it takes SB to a higher level to be a middle stage towards VB.NET and WPF. So, sVB can offer many levels of learning for kids, middle and high school students, and even beginners in collages that don't study programming. I created a series of short videos (10 minutes in avg) to introduce sVB to kids but it is in Arabic. I am not a fluent English speaker, and re-introducing these videos in English will take me too long besides accent issues, so, I hope others can introduce these lessons in English and other languages, with the help of the reference book and the samples folder. https://www.youtube.com/@smallvisualbasic

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