Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language, which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner ...

Windows only: If you've never played around with programming before, this weekend is a perfect time to start. Small Basic is a recent offering from Microsoft based on the venerable BASIC ...

Last month, Microsoft ... programming language for three years in a row. While Visual Basic certainly still has fans, and some businesses do rely on it for their business-critical software ...

Microsoft Small Basic is a much simpler form of BASIC ... idea for adults either who have an inclination towards programming. This software works with Windows XP and later versions of the ...

It was huge news among the small number of people ... could examine the original program for anything written in Microsoft BASIC, including commercial software distributed on cassette or floppy ...

For example, Microsoft Small Basic, released in 2008, has served as an educational tool to teach programming concepts to beginners. There's no doubt that BASIC's easy-to-understand syntax made it ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming ... in small and medium enterprises, and is probably still used by many developers because it's easy to learn. When Microsoft announced ...

Computer enthusiasts, programmers and hobbyists may be interested to know that the discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming ... It was Microsoft’s first product (as Micro-Soft ...

“You gotta try this,” he told me, and handed over a piece of paper on which he’d handwritten a program ... BASIC proved this at scale. But as a practical language? For making shippable software?

Kurtz successfully ran the first program ... syntax of BASIC, with its plain English keywords, proved popular and easy to use for beginners. Before early computers became small, inexpensive ...