http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/tags/SmallBasic/default.aspxTags: SmallBasicen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2008/12/18/smallbasic-version-0-2-released.aspxThu, 18 Dec 2008 20:00:40 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9232921Beth Massi0http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/comments/9232921.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9232921http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9232921<p>I've played a bit with <a href="http://www.smallbasic.com/" target="_blank">SmallBasic</a> and <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2008/10/24/learn-how-to-program-with-small-basic.aspx" target="_blank">blogged about it before</a> -- it's great for anyone just learning how to program. Yesterday <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/smallbasic/" target="_blank">Vijaye announced</a> the release of the <a href="http://www.smallbasic.com/" target="_blank">second version of SmallBasic</a> which includes some improvements that I've been waiting for like removal of conditional parentheses, support for inline comments and some much needed crash fixes. There's also a slew of new library additions to play with. </p> <p><a href="http://www.smallbasic.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Check it out here!</strong></a></p> <p>Enjoy!</p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9232921" width="1" height="1">SmallBasichttp://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2008/10/24/learn-how-to-program-with-small-basic.aspxSat, 25 Oct 2008 00:49:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9015298Beth Massi0http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/comments/9015298.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9015298http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9015298<p>Microsoft Developer Labs has released <a href="http://www.smallbasic.com/" target="_blank">Small Basic</a>, a simple programming language based on BASIC and a development environment that runs on Windows XP or Vista (written in WPF on the .NET Framework 3.5). There's <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/0/6/90616372-C4BF-4628-BC82-BD709635220D/Introducing%20Small%20Basic.pdf" target="_blank">good documentation and examples</a> as well as a <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbasic/threads/" target="_blank">Forum to ask questions and post your cool programs</a>.</p> <p>I got so addicted to this today playing with it. Here's a simple program I wrote to grab random World Series pictures from Flickr and create a collage. </p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/bethmassi/WindowsLiveWriter/LearnHowtoProgramwithSmallBasic_D08B/sb1_2.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="480" alt="sb1" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/bethmassi/WindowsLiveWriter/LearnHowtoProgramwithSmallBasic_D08B/sb1_thumb.jpg" width="590" border="0" /></a>'</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/bethmassi/WindowsLiveWriter/LearnHowtoProgramwithSmallBasic_D08B/sb2_2.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="484" alt="sb2" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/bethmassi/WindowsLiveWriter/LearnHowtoProgramwithSmallBasic_D08B/sb2_thumb.jpg" width="612" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>There's no debugger support yet so if you get a runtime error it's hard to debug at the moment, but they plan on adding that soon. I think it would also be very cool to make it more interactive (ala dynamic language) so that as you typed your program actually executed line by line. I'm going to take this to my mom's elementary school when I go speak to the kids this year. </p> <p>There's even a Turtle in there that you can program to draw on the screen just like LOGO. Very cool! Try this out on your kids and <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbasic/threads/" target="_blank">post your feedback to the forum</a>.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9015298" width="1" height="1">DevCenterSmallBasic