There are two free programming environments/languages called Small Basic. One is Microsoft Small Basic. Here is a website where you can download a free copy of Microsoft Small Basic. They offer a free tutorial in PDF, free example programs, and a Wiki for support. Here is a list of programs made with Microsoft Small Basic.
Another Small Basic version is called SmallBASIC. This version was intended to run on minimal hardware. This is not a toy language. It was intended for the Palm OS. The Wikipedia article says, "SmallBASIC runs even on Palm OS wristwatches made by Fossil, Inc." You can get SmallBASIC for free from the SmallBASIC webpage on Sourceforge. There are no tutorials for Basic at this website. However, you can download free applications as examples written in SmallBASIC from their code library. Basic is a simple language, so you do not need much to get going.
Generic books on Basic are hard to find, but copies are still available from Amazon for Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Programming With Basic by Byron S. Gottfried, and his other book, Schaum's Outline of Programming with Structured BASIC. The difference between the two is that structured programming does not use GOTO statements.
There are a lot of free sources for Basic compilers.
Robert
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