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Microsoft Small Basic Guru Award Winners! - May, 2014
The Small Basic Guru Awards celebrate the Small Basic articles on TechNet Wiki, contributed from valued wiki authors like YOU!Each month, the contributions are scored by a panel of judges (5 per...
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Small Basic - Hammer and Nails
One of the great things about Small Basic is that you have to be imaginative to solve problems, since there is such a small set of commands. This makes it fun to use even when you have quite good...
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Interview with a Small Basic Guru - Steve Todman (litdev)
We've interviewed litdev once here before. You can find that interview here:LitDev, Scottish MCC & Forum Moderation Ninja (Sinclair Spectrum, Small Basic, Fortran, C++, C#) But I also wanted to...
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Small Basic and Office Suite
Today, I'd like to talk about the relationship between Microsoft Small Basic and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). Following articles are my samples. If you find more attractive...
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LitDev's "Dynamic Graphics for Game Programming" - Small Basic Featured Article
This article from litdev is an introduction to graphical game programming using Small Basic. It includes the basics of program design, movement, user interaction with keys and mouse, collision...
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Sprite Arrays - Featured Article
I recently wrote a TechNet Wiki article describing how to manage arrays of sprites in a game.For the full article see...
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Small Basic - Being Part of a Game Dev Team?
Today, I'd like to pick up a thread from Small Basic Forum. The title is "Being part of a game Dev team?".This topic is raised by Zock77 with his first question:"Anyone around interested in being part...
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Would you join the Small Basic team in the TechNet Guru World Cup???
The World Cup is here again! Sort of. We've got brains in our ball!And YOU have been selected to play on our team!Yes blog reader, step up and take a shot!Slam some techie tips in the back of our...
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Why Microsoft Small Basic? Why not Scratch or Alice?
This was originally written up by the Small Basic creator, Vijay Raji..."Both Scratch and Alice are great tools that help beginners learn the concepts of programming. They are doing so by enabling...
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Small Basic - Colors
You can set colors in Small Basic in 3 ways:Using pre-defined color names (e.g. GraphicsWindow.BrushColor = "Red")Using a Hex value code (e.g. GraphicsWindows.BrushColor = "#FF0000")Setting the Red,...
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Small Basic - Resources for Game Programming
Microsoft Small Basic program language is for learning programming. If you've already understood programming, you may would like to start game programming. Today, I'd like to introduce some resources...
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Small Basic - Random Numbers
Random numbers can be very useful in your Small Basic games. They can be used to make the game play vary from one game to the next.The Small Basic keyword to get a random number is...
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Small Basic Game Programming - Let's start with RPS game
I'm going to write about game programming in Small Basic for several weeks on this blog. For the first time, I'd like to pick up simple text base RPS (Rock-Paper-Scissors) game.Main loopThis code is...
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Introducing Small Basics Monthly Challenge Statistics.
Today I’d like to introduce Small Basics Monthly Challenge Statistics.They are provided for anyone who’s interested in community traffic in the challenge forum threads. They are updateable, responsive...
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Small Basic - Promoted in Portuguese!
It's fantastic to see Small Basic enjoyed by the Portuguese community, so we're going to highlight two blog posts... Sexta-Feira - Atualização Internacional da Comunidade - Artigos sobre Small...
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Small Basic - Triangle Challenge
One of this month's challenges was set by Nonki - "Draw a picture of a regular triangle".Here are some of the solutions: By Athasak, QQK823This answer was shown to not be an exact equilateral triangle...
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Small Basic Game Programming - Text adventure
Once I have answered a question in Small Basic Forum by Jeffrey SWHS about Text Adventure Game. At that time, I made a sample text adventure program. That program (FCD758-0) is not completed. But I...
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Small Basic Guru - June Winners: LitDev, Jibba Jabba, & Nonki Takahashi!!!
Congrats to LitDev, Jibba Jabba, and Nonki! Great articles this month! Small Basic Technical Guru - June 2014 litdevSmall Basic: Sprite ArraysEd Price: "An important topic that's well described with...
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Small Basic - Clearing Turtle Trails
With the current version of Small Basic, the trails left by the turtle cannot be easily cleared. We may want to remove the trails because we are starting the turtle off again and want a clear screen...
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Small Basic Game Programming - Separation Between Data And Procedure
Last week, I introduced a text adventure game. If I expand the game story of that manner as in the program, the program will have a lot of If statements and Goto statements. Today, I will introduce...
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