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New Oculus Rift Extension for Small Basic – Oculus SB
First of all, this awesome new extension comes from the one and only… Zock77 Here it is in Zock’s words… Awhile ago, a friend of mine lent me an Oculus rift. It is a virtual reality headset that can be...
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Small Basic New Blog
This blog had following design: But now this blog has following new design: HTML contents have also changed, so I updated a program introduced in this post. The new program ID is CPP576-1. I could...
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Most Popular Algorithm?
Challenge of the Month – April 2016 has been started. This month, calculation by hand is picked up as a community suggestions: Community Suggestions This month the community suggestions for challenges...
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Small Basic at the TEALS CS Fair
On Friday, April 1, 2016 Microsoft’s TEALS program held a Computer Science Fair to 1,600 enthusiastic computer science students and Small Basic was there to talk to the teens and educators who stopped...
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New Project SBDoc Started
I started to develop new tool SBDoc. This tool is like JavaDoc or JSDoc to create document HTML files from program source code. The current version’s program ID is NPW862. Now SBDoc has CUI...
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Small Basic Challenges of the Month! April 2016
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...
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Chess Problems in Small Basic
Today I’d like to introduce two chess problems posted in Small Basic forum. You can use Unicode characters for chessmen in Small Basic programs. e.g. ♟, ♞, ♝, ♜, ♛ and ♚. Knight’s Tour The original...
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Build month! So much new to know! Small Basic Gurus needed!
A wonderful month of news and new technology advances from Build have filled our minds with new possibilities! So much to play with! Can you help us document some of the new features coming out over...
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MSDN Blog Article List – Small Basic Tools
Today, I’d like to introduce two tools written in Small Basic. MSDN Blog Article List This tool (NPB609) is a new version of my Blog Article List series. The screen shot above shows that this tool...
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Small Basic – Hardware Story
It’s time for us to shout on a rooftop and proclaim all the wonderful hardware capabilities that you’re going to find in Small Basic! Today we’re highlighting four powerful capabilities: Lego...
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Small Basic Extension Manager
I created a utility to manage Small Basic extensions. It can be downloaded from TechNet Gallery. If you would like an extension added to the database, or have other suggestions then please leave a...
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Fractals in Small Basic
There is a list of fractal programs in a blog article here. But, I’d like to update and summarize again about fractal programs in this post. Fractal Tree I think this may be the first fractal program...
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Small Basic – May 2016 Challenges of the Month
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 ArticleCharacters for Names in Small Basic
General rule for variable, label, subroutine names are: starts with “_” or alphabet character. followed by “_”, alphabet or number. But I found some multi-byte characters can be used for these names in...
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May Day! We need YOU as a TechNet Small Basic Guru!
May is under way! And the Guru early birds are showing the way! Could this be the month that we see the best ever TechNet article in the WORLD!!? You could be thinking it right now words of wisdom that...
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Turtle Brick – Small Basic Sample Program
I wrote a 2D brick program controlled with Turtle. The program ID is KDH145. You can use five commands to control Turtle: Left, Right, Up, Down, and Fill. Have fun!
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Drawing Voxel and Cuboid in Small Basic
Today, I’d like to introduce my new program to draw voxels and cuboids. The program ID is QRC070. A voxel is a 3-D pixel. As a next step, I’m planning to make this program using 3-point perspective.
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Small Basic – June Challenges: Psychedelic Spiral, MARS orbit, Anagrams,...
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...
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ANNOUNCING THE 20 SMALL BASIC BOOK GIVEAWAY WINNERS: “Learn to Program with...
ABOUT THE GIVEAWAY In today’s blog post, we’ll dig into a Small Basic sample that will select 10 random winners from folks who took the Small Basic 1.2 Feedback Survey! Awhile ago we had a promotion to...
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Date Calculator – Small Basic Sample Program
I wrote a date calculator program in Small Basic. The program ID is JQQ629. This program calculates days between two dates. To calculate days, dates are converted to Julian days. There are two...
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