CodeFriends vs. CodeSpace vs. CodeSync Club vs. Visual Basic Comparison Chart

Easy to use browser-based software. Interactive curriculum modules, standards-based, project-driven learning. Physical computing-based robotics. Our unique learning platform brings together a powerful, open-ended coding environment, a teacher-friendly curriculum suite, and an exciting, thoroughly hackable set of hardware tools. CodeSpace helps you deliver real-world learning experiences to your students. Perfect for learning but industry-proven, Python has been used to develop software for Google, YouTube, Spotify, and countless other applications highly relevant to students' lives. Our exclusive use of text-based code, rather than drag and drop blocks, appeals to students seeking relevance, meaning, and real-world value from instruction. Our Python-based curriculum modules lead students (and teachers!) step by step, from basic coding concepts to deep and complex projects. Instructional content is integrated with development tools, so students can practice the mechanics of programming.

Visual Basic is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft. Using Visual Basic makes it fast and easy to create type-safe .NET apps. Visual Basic focuses on supplying more of the features of the Visual Basic Runtime (microsoft.visualbasic.dll) to .NET Core and is the first version of Visual Basic focused on .NET Core. Many portions of the Visual Basic Runtime depend on WinForms and these will be added in a later version of Visual Basic. .NET is a free, open-source development platform for building many kinds of apps. With .NET, your code and project files look and feel the same no matter which type of app you're building. You have access to the same runtime, API, and language capabilities with each app. A Visual Basic program is built up from standard building blocks. A solution comprises one or more projects. A project in turn can contain one or more assemblies. Each assembly is compiled from one or more source files.