Small Basic Survival Guide - Got anything to add?
I'm creating this survival guide:Small Basic Survival Guide A Survival Guide is a list of resource links that you can go to in addition to the existing TechNet Wiki articles. To see all of the TechNet...
View ArticleSmall Basic LitDev Extension -- Download Now from TechNet Gallery!!!
Small Basic LitDev ExtensionView LitDev's TechNet Gallery contributions View LitDev's Profile Download the LitDev Extension :Small Basic LitDev Extension It has loads of extra functionality with over...
View ArticleSmall Basic - Controls are Shapes
All of the Controls (Buttons, TextBoxes etc) that can be created with the Controls object can be manipulated with the Shapes object methods.This can create some fun effects and make your games or...
View ArticleSmall Basic Game Programming - Sugoroku like game
This program is also from an article in Small Basic Forum Help with Small Basic program posted by Rahul Yedida. The question was "I am trying to make a Monopoly game in Small Basic TextWindow. I have...
View ArticleSmall Basic - How to read error messages
Today's blog post comes from a section of the longer TechNet Wiki article:Small Basic: How to Debug by Nonki Takahashi Meaning of Error MessagesThere are two types of error messages given by Small...
View ArticleSmall Basic Comments
This is an excerpt from this great TechNet Wiki article:Small Basic: Programming Tips by litdev CommentsA comment in Small Basic starts with an apostrophe ' and is highlighted in green. Anything...
View ArticleSmall Basic Challenges of the Month - August 2014
These challenges are intended for people who are learning to program for the first time or for those returning to programming who want to start using Small Basic. Some will be easy, some will be hard -...
View ArticleSmall Basic Marionette - Sign up for the Big Challenge for September 2014!!!
This thread is for recruiting contributors to a new group challenge that's coming from the Monthly Challenges, for September 2014. Group ChallengeApply in this thread to create a group (with two or...
View ArticleSmall Basic Game Programming - Vertical Scrolling Game
I wrote an article about Vertical Scrolling Game. That was one of challenges of the month - May 2014. At that time, I made a vertical scrolling game named Turtle Dodger. Today, I'd like to introduce...
View ArticleBecome the August Small Basic Guru - Festival of the Awesome Small Basic
It's here at last!The August round of the TechNet Technical Guru Competition!The quality and quantity of entries has been beyond our wildest expectations lately, with epic posts and useful snippets...
View ArticleSmall Basic - TextWindow Cursor Positioning
We can write to the TextWindow using Write and WriteLine; the WriteLine variant also adds a 'new line' to position the cursor at the start of the next line.There are 2 other TextWindow properties that...
View ArticleSmall Basic Game Programming - Shooting Game
In Challenge of the Month - August 2013, there were following two challenges.Game ChallengeWrite a DuckShoot game.Interface ChallengeWrite a fancy Game Opening screen for DuckShoot game - see above.At...
View ArticleMicrosoft Small Basic Guru Awards - July 2014 WINNERS!!!
Nonki and I were the only contributors this month, but a special thanks go out to Nonki for really knocking it out of the park with a lot of fantastic articles! Small Basic Technical Guru - July...
View ArticleSmall Basic - Physics for Marionette Challenge
A 'Big ' Challenge for groups of programmers has been created by Nonki. We are recruiting during August for development in September.In summary the challenge is to create a marionette puppet in Small...
View ArticleSmall Basic Game Programming - Air Hockey Game
Both in Challenge of the Month - July 2013 and Challenge of the Month - July 2014, the challenges of air hockey game was presented. Through this challenges, I wrote KLB414-4 for an year. [W] key and...
View Article99 Bottles of Rootbeer (Small Basic Featured Program)
In our August challenge:http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f7370867-2508-4a48-8b37-07761bf60649/challenge-of-the-month-august-2014?forum=smallbasic We had a...Challenge from Nonki:Create a...
View ArticleSmall Basic - Transparent GraphicsWindow
I recently added a feature to the LitDev Extension to create a completely transparent GraphicsWindow.The method to do this is:LDUtilities.TransparentGW()I can't show a screenshot because there is...
View ArticleJoin the Big Challenge project - Small Basic Marionette
From today, the new Big Challenge started in Small Basic forum. Why don't you join this challenge? This thread is for a new group challenge dropped out from the Monthly Challenges.This challenge is...
View ArticleSmall Basic Challenges for September - Traffic Light, Array from CSV, and a...
Special thanks to LitDev for hosting these challenges!These monthly challenges are intended for people who are learning to program for the first time or for those returning to programming who want to...
View ArticleBrighten up everyone's day! Become a shining September Small Basic Guru!
As we in the Northern hemisphere watch the leaves turn brown, and the days grow shorter once more, we mourn the onset of darkness and cold. Winter is coming, and it may be a long one! (heard that...
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