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Wow, this really brings back memories. Small Basic was the first actual programming language I learned back when I was 10 years old. I remember getting my dad t
by chabad360 3y ago
Wow, this really brings back memories. Small Basic was the first actual programming language I learned back when I was 10 years old. I remember getting my dad to print the language manual so I could read it on the plane ride to my grandparents.
The editor they shipped had some neat features for the time like Intelisense and built-in docs, it even had support for third-party libraries with DLLs.
One really neat feature I also remember was that you could turn a SB project into VB with a click of a button, it would create the VS solution and vbproj for you. I'm not quite sure how it worked with the language itself cause VB looks quite a bit different and it wouldn't change your code (no transpiling or stuff like that, just a wrapper).
Funnily enough, I didn't actually move to VB from that, I went to C# (which I have since forgotten). But it definitely got me quite a bit further in my developer journey (now I work with Go at a small org).
- vijayer 3y agoThis makes me so happy, thanks for sharing this.
- diego_sandoval 3y agoI also learned to program using Small Basic, and if I had to learn to program over again, I would choose Small Basic again. Thanks for creating it.