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Small Visual Basic (sVB) is an educational programming language, created by Eng. Mohammad Hamdy as an evolved version of Microsoft Small Basic (SB). It is meant to be easier and more powerful at the same time, to introduce programming basics to kids and beginners of any age, provided that they can use the English keyboard on the Windows OS.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2022-10-31 · latest 2024-11-16

Mentions per year 11 mentions · busiest year 2023 (7)
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  1. …folks recommend to a young person starting out today? My initial inclination would be to suggest: https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic but I really wish that there was a more capable option. Scratch is great until one wants to…
    comment by WillAdams · 2024-11-16 · in Thomas E. Kurtz has died
  2. One rather charming attempt is: https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic
  3. …open source, and anyone can fork it and create other versions to run on other systems and mobile. https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic
  4. …projects, so you can fork the language and modify the form designer and code editor as you like: https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic
    comment by svb_2023 · 2023-05-16 · in Microsoft Small Basic
  5. …C and even python and more powerful as it leads to learn a powerful commercial system (VS.NET). https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic
    comment by svb_2023 · 2023-05-16 · in Microsoft Small Basic
  6. And this is one more: https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic
    comment by svb_2023 · 2023-05-16 · in Microsoft Small Basic
  7. I've fixed this issues in Small Visual Basic: https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic sVB has local and global scopes, functions that return values, and subs and functions with parameters. Also, sVB is a semi object oriented…
    comment by svb_2023 · 2023-05-16 · in Microsoft Small Basic
  8. …and a mini winforms lib, in addition to many modification to the compiler itself. For more details: https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic I also provided a 750 pages reference book for sVB:…
    comment by svb_2023 · 2023-05-16 · in Microsoft Small Basic
  9. 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…
    comment by WillAdams · 2023-05-14 · in Microsoft Small Basic