Small Basic is LIVE! 9:18 AM, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2008 Remember this side project that I said I was working on for over a year now? Yeah - the one that consumed most of my weekends and nights? I'm just super-hyper-mega-excited to announce that it just got released to the world by Microsoft!!!! The project is named "Small Basic" and is something that I believe will help beginners get started with programming, much in the same way we all did when we were kids! I just started another blog, where I talked a little bit about the history of this project. You can check it out here. Go check it out: Small Basic. Ravichandran 11:14 PM, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2008 "Hi, Viji. Congrats. Wish a great success. with warm regards, Ravichandran" clumsydreams 6:45 AM, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2008 superabu. congratulations for you... Ramnath 8:13 AM, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2008 "Hi vijay, congrats. and wishing u a very happy deepavali.... " BillBail 4:57 PM, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008 "Sweet! Hope it takes off-- I'll let you know how June likes it in about 7 years :) Also, props for acknowledging the Dijkstra viewpoint on your launch post. " subbu 12:17 AM, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2008 congrats on the release..but why the world need one more programming language? scottg 7:06 PM, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 02, 2008 "Wow, how useless! I can understand your excitement, but this adds no value to anything. I can teach regular VB to children to have them learn the concepts. Congrats for your personal achievement, but I wish the dollars where better spent" vj 10:23 AM, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2008 "Scott, opinions differ. There are a lot of people that think VB is too hard to teach their children, and Small Basic is for them. Also, all of this was done in my spare time as a pet project." Philip T 5:57 PM, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2008 "Hi Vijay, I just wanted to say many thanks for Small Basic. I bought my kids aged 9 and 11 a laptop this Christmas. I was dismayed that they quickly found online games and wasted time in the never-ending empty quest to get to ""the next level"". I wanted to introduce them to the fun of the creative discipline of programming - a discovery I made with my first computer and Basic in 1983. I was looking for a compiler when I found Small Basic, which I think is better than what I had - it helps you write programs and you can run programs instantly. Now we're all programming.