I've broken the sites into various categories, depending on the content available at the site.

Recommendations       History/Overviews       General Coverage

Tutorials Online Magazines Vendors/Tools       Blogs

Games Forums       Other

Recommendations - Top freeBASIC Sites
There are hundreds of very useful web sites on the web, more than a busy programmer can fit into his spare time of only an hour our so each day. For those of you who have such limited schedules, I suggest the following freeBASIC-specific sites.

• freeBASIC Home Page
  
• Pete's QBASIC/QuickBasic Site
  

Recommendations - Online Magazines
In addition to the site recommended above, I also suggest you read the following online magazines for awareness of developments in the QBasic community. These come out infrequently, so they won't take much time to stay current.

• QBExpress
• Qbasic/Quickbasic News

Recommendations - Forums
These provide insight into the activity still going on with freeBASIC. Total posts, regardless of age is important. Also important is the number of active messages.

• xxx
• xxx

Frequency of Visits
How often should a programmer review favorite sites?

The easy answer is that once a week is plenty often to keep you abreast of the site offerings. If you find a topic of interest, particularly one that applies to a project your are, or will be, working on then more time can be justified. If you were to visit all your favorite sites every day, spending 1-2 hours in the process, then you're there for fun, not for professional reasons (which, of course, is ok - but not necessarily the best use of your time).