Small Basic

Talk by Microsoft Employee Alfred Thompson, introducing Small Basic – This was not on the TCEA Planner website but a side talk by Microsoft.

Small Basic Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smallbasic/

Small Basic Download

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx

Good starter language, is text based. Ports to Visual Basic.

Has “turtle graphics” also Gridworld style graphics. Has tons of examples and documentation on the internet.

I really like this as an introduction to programming as it gives an easy transition to Visual Basic.

He also talked about the Kudo, Kinnect and other projects by Microsoft.