![]() If you already know programming, it takes just an hour to learn the language! History of Small Basic It is also a hobbyist language since you can quickly create powerful programs using it. Small basic is suitable for introducing a programming language to kids. It had brought back the fun and the hobby of programming! Then in October 2008, Vijaye Raji (a Microsoft engineer at that time) came out with a scaled down version of Basic language called Small Basic. I resented Microsoft’s decision to remove BASIC language from their Windows products. Unfortunately BASIC compilers were no longer bundled with Windows and the only way to have fun with the language was to install a DOS emulator such as DosBox. Once in a while I used to read our old basic programs which brought back the memories of fun we had with the language. However once I got a job all these hobbies went in the background and I was programming in Java from the beginning. Later we (me and my brother) ended up creating some fairly sophisticated games using QuickBasic compiler. Two things stand out in my mind – it had a color display and I could program games in it! From the very first day I was hooked on to computers thanks to the power and the fun offered by BASIC language. Our school had one of those machines (don’t remember what it was!) which came with pre-installed BASIC interpreter. It was probably in 1989 that I got a chance to work with computers.
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