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sVB-Small-Visual-Basic
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.
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FunSharp
Fun cross-platform graphics library, based on the Small Basic library, made specifically for F# and C#.
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FunSharp
Весела кросс-платформенна графична біблиотека, базуючаяся на библиотеці із Small Basic, зроблена спеціально для F# і C#. (by kant2002)
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Really tricky, I've recently been trying to work out what language to do with my 12 year old son. In the past we have played around with things like scratch ( https://scratch.mit.edu/ ) which is a great introduction. I went along to an after school programming school to see what they were doing and they were using things like https://www.codemonkey.com/ and Python. They were also using Minecraft and Roblox. My son is really interested in Roblox and I've spent a bit of time looking at Roblox Studio ( quite impressive really ) which uses Lua. In the end I decided to start with C# and Console programs, I was nervous about whether the console would be too boring, but actually, it's going really well. My plan is to really thoroughly cover the concept of basic types, variables, loops, conditionals, scopes, functions, and objects. I've watched a lot of people learn programming on twitch and noticed so many tend to get constantly stuck as they don't have this basic working understanding of the fundamentals and try to advance too quickly. We will then do some GUI stuff, then do some Web stuff, some Roblox Studio, and some embedded/electronics stuff. As part of this I want to teach him about windows and linux inner workings (we also have a mac, but only really care he knows how to use it). So at the end I hope he appreciates multiple languages and multiple OS's and that you can write software for all kinds of things.
For my 9-year-old boy, I picked QB64 [1] and things are going very well. The experience is identical to old QBasic, but with a saner language that encourages to declare the type of variables.
At the moment we are following [2], which seems perfect for a child of that age.
[1] https://github.com/QB64Official/qb64 is the repo to follow: after the dramatic split of the dev community happened in 2022, the older one is not used anymore.
[2] https://www.qb64tutorial.com/
Not sure if this is project related, but I discover port (https://github.com/ptrelford/FunSharp) of Small Basic style on F# and that look awesome for displaying simple concepts. I think all programming languages can have simple setups which would be easy for kids.
I was interested enough to port from Gtk to Avalonia, since that looks much better for Windows and do not degrade anywhere on Linux/Mac OS. Also I run small experiment by try to "internationalize" that library, by porting F# to my language - Ukrainian, just to look if that would be easier to pickup. I think for early education, immidiately after Scratch expressing algorithms in native language maybe beneficia.
In case you are know Ukrainian and interested: https://github.com/kant2002/FunSharp/tree/%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB...
Not sure if this is project related, but I discover port (https://github.com/ptrelford/FunSharp) of Small Basic style on F# and that look awesome for displaying simple concepts. I think all programming languages can have simple setups which would be easy for kids.
I was interested enough to port from Gtk to Avalonia, since that looks much better for Windows and do not degrade anywhere on Linux/Mac OS. Also I run small experiment by try to "internationalize" that library, by porting F# to my language - Ukrainian, just to look if that would be easier to pickup. I think for early education, immidiately after Scratch expressing algorithms in native language maybe beneficia.
In case you are know Ukrainian and interested: https://github.com/kant2002/FunSharp/tree/%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB...
Heh, you would appreciate this... [1]
[1] https://github.com/darcfx/darcfx-submissions/blob/master/vb/...