Small Visual Basic is out there but need to be heard of!

[VBAndCs]

Hi everybody.
I spent 3 years to get sVB so far: Half a year to make small Basic videos and discover its downsides, 2 years to create Small Visual Basic and evolve it, and half a year to write its full reference book.

SVB has the best of SB, VB6, VB.NET, VS IDE, and even some WPF features, as explained in the provided links.
sVB can be easily introduced to kids, but it has more advanced stages to keep the beginner learning more, until he is ready to move on to VB .NET.
I did all this work alone, but now sVB needs all the support it can get to reach kids and beginner. It is a huge evolution for SB, and a very attractive entry point for MS DotNet platform, so, I think it worths to be mentioned in the Small Basic website and docs, and promoted to old SB students who stopped at that point and never learned any other programming language. I met some of them who are scared of VS and VB .NET , but seem interested in sVB.
Finally, I have suggested all those improvement in SB repo, but no one cared, and this is why I decided to carry on.
So please, make use of this hard work. After all, it promotes MS products, after many kids today have been attracted to Python.
Thanks:

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[VBAndCs]

An introductory video about sVB.

[sjsepan3]

Wikipedia presence:

Check out this list of programming languages on Wikipedia; SmallBasic is there, but to edit the list and add sVB under it seems to require the prior existence of a Wikipedia page about sVB itself. Just something to consider...

Steve

[sjsepan3]

Rosetta Code presence:

Here is another way to get sVB 'on the map'... Microsoft Small Basic is out there on Rosetta Code. You could create a category for sVB, and folks could fill out solutions.

Steve

[sjsepan3]

I was unable to find a way to send a private message, even on Twitter, so I'll post this here for your input...

Mohammad Hamdy Ghanem,
I thank you for all the prompt responses to issues on the Small Visual Basic repository. I finished writing a small project in sVB to test out the language. (The project is posted publicly at https://gitlab.com/sjsepan/sVBApp1). As there were some IDE issues discovered during development, I fell back to working with my favorite editors (VSCode and VSCodium), using a SmallBasic extension written by @alxnull. Interestingly, due to the way that your system is designed, it is possible to do the visual design in the sVB IDE, which is then saved in the XAML file, and then work on the code in the .sb file with VSCodium.
Anyway, while the SmallBasic extension was adequate for me to do a lot of the coding, when I finished I decided to make a fork of the extension and try to extend it to recognize more of the sVB syntax. While I am a novice at tinkering with vscode extensions, it worked out fairly well, and I have an extension project that gives slightly more feedback than the original extension. While neither the original Small Basic extension nor this Small Visual Basic extension are backed by any kind of true Language Server Protocol server, they do provide some color syntax highlighting and code snippets.
Note that while the sample project is posted publicly, the vscode extension is not yet posted publicly. This is because 1) I used an icon from your IDE project in the README page of the extension and wanted to ask your permission before displaying it, and 2) I wanted to solicit your opinion of the description of the extension, which mentions you and your project. I have two screenshots, one of the private view of the extension page on Gitlab (Figure 1), and one of the README page of the extension as it appears in VSCodium (Figure 2).
You may be surprised to see me enabling this means of editing Small Visual Basic, but I think that it could be considered yet another avenue by which sVB programmers could eventually ‘graduate’. Anyway, let me know what you think...

Stephen J Sepan
Github: @sjsepan3

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[VBAndCs]

@sjsepan3
I already mentioned sVB in the history part of the Small Basic page in Wikipedia with a link to GitHub. But creating a full page about sVB needs some time to format the page and represent info in an acceptable way for Wikipedia .
I never heard of Rosetta Code, but thanks for the suggestion.

[VBAndCs]

@sjsepan3
This is great. Thanks for your efforts.
I thought about the VS extension before, but SB is created in the first place to make kids avoid the VS complexity. Though, I am happy with this addition to sVB, and it can help introduce sVB to VS code users.
Feel free to reuse any sVB resources.
I think you should omit my name from the description and use only Small Visual Basic. After all, there is only one sVB basic until now :D
By the way, I use VB .NET not VS code, and I don't expect this extension to work with VS .NET.
Thanks for all the time and effort you are giving to sVB.

[VBAndCs]

@sjsepan3
I downloaded your sVB app1, but the Global.sb file is empty, so, I got errors.

[sjsepan3]

I downloaded your sVB app1, but the Global.sb file is empty, so, I got errors.

I will check my Git, to make sure it got checked in properly

UPDATE: I've somehow got the code in two different folder levels, and the globals is blank in one. I need to clean up that structure -- not sure what happened there -- maybe copying from Win7 in VBox over to my Linux Mint.

[VBAndCs]

@sjsepan3
You can contact me on my email, which is mentioned in the about the author section in the book.

[sjsepan3]

@VBAndCs

Thanks -- I overlooked that email.

OK, I've cleaned up the repository. It was quite a mess after the 0.1.1 update. I would delete what you downloaded and start clean.

Steve

[sjsepan3]

@VBAndCs

OK, I've made the modifications to remove your name. The extensions is now public on GitLab

[VBAndCs]

@sjsepan3
Cool 💯
Note that the VS Code Marketplace link is broken.

[zimaamzayn]

@VBAndCs Bro Peace be upon you (أسلم أ عليكم).
You should add some sort of Tags like ( visual programming language, basic-programming, etc ) to github repositories also
Make a github Page by making your VBAndCs.github.io repositories and navigate to setting then to pages and deploy it.

And I would recomend you to make some IDE for Haxe programing language as it has best support for building application for most Platform.
https://haxe.org/
https://www.openfl.org/ and https://lime.openfl.org/ the core frameworks for haxe enable to make desktop, web, Flash and Android apps.
http://haxeui.org/ the cross platform ui library for haxe use Openfl.

Hope this help and All The Very Best For Your Feature Programming.

[zimaamzayn]

Is there any discussion community (Like Discord ) for sVB general discussion I need to ask advice about how to do that cannot be done in github as it is made for Issue related bug.