Create a section for useful links when "graduating" from small basic

[Caseysch]

Site should have links to some introductory tutorials for other languages that are more advanced, or more accessible. Some examples:

• TI-Basic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-BASIC), if graphing calculators are still used in schools. This was my "first language" simply because I had access to a calculator before I knew what an "IDE" was.
• Javascript/HTML/CSS because they're so commonly used (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-popular-technologies-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages) and kids loved it 20 years ago (https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/myspace-and-the-coding-legacy/)

Also include introductions to other IDEs, so they can pick their own language and continue using a familar tool. IDEs like:

• Visual Studio Code, the apparent IDE of choice (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-popular-technologies-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages)
• Maybe just VSCode. That's a huge lead.

[Caseysch]

I don't think we want to include links to languages that Small Basic is based on, or languages based on Small Basic, like VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic#8

This site really wants to streamline "you're interested in coding? Start right here, right now", and I think that listing "alternatives" would slow that down and ask the new coders to try to figure out the differences between several unfamiliar and similarly named things.

Those could be mentioned in any article/blog that debates what language to start with but I don't think they belong on this website.

[VBAndCs]

Hi @Caseysch, I'd like to see some statistics about SB online editor site traffic and SB IDE download over the past years. I am under the impression that kids nowadays are attracted to Python and other languages. In fact I am not yet satisfied about sVB , until it can produce android and IOS applications besideds the windows exe for the same exact code and form design currently used, so, kids can easily create simple applications for their mobiles. Furthermore, I hope that sVB itself can run on tablets or at least on a website with its full capabilities, as many kids today have no PCs nor laptops! When educational languages can run on the kid's most used device, he will probably get attached to it and easily learn it. In short, we are wat behind this generation, and keep forcing our old tools on them. Of course I can't promise to deliver all the above wishes, as I am only one man. I created sVB just to prove it is possible, after my suggestion to evolve SB has been ignored. So, please, reconsider the future of the Small Basic, because it is vital to the future to VB .NET and its upcoming successor ModVB. Thanks.

[Caseysch]

The website currently handles about 30k request/day. There's not much telemetry configured there, so I can't really be more specific.

Python is also a popular language, so it'd make sense to include that as well.

I'd agree that mobile development (both developing for phones, and developing on a mobile phone) should be a priority for reaching kids.

As for the future of Small Basic, I am not personally very involved in that development. I just keep the website alive and use the language to teach.