Small Basic has 2.4 Million Installations (plus 10 other factoids)

First published on MSDN on Sep 18, 2016

Authored by Ed Price

Here are some high-level basics about Small Basic:

1. Head to SmallBasic.com to download Small Basic and get started!


2. Small Basic is great for students, age 8 to 108!


3. It is a custom concise language based on .NET, with only 14 keywords.


4. It features IntelliSense® for beginners


5. It features an Always-open Help pane


6. It is Social: Simple publishing to share games & code and collaborate on code


7. The Graduate button migrates programs to Visual Studio Code to learn VB, Java, C#, Python, & more!


8. It has been Extended to support Kinect, Lego Mindstorms, Arduino, Oculus Rift, & 3D Graphics!


9. Small Basic teaches programming concepts starting with the fundamentals and moving up. Small Basic is based on .NET and what is learned can be applied to other object-oriented programming languages.


10. Small Basic has 2.4 million installations!


11. Small Basic has 10+ published books / ebooks available, including the book I wrote!

That's Small and Basically it,

- Ninja Ed