Small Basic Gurus! Where are you!? Scooby Doo? Join the June Guru competition!
Scooby Doo! Where are you? What? I don’t know. Oh, Small Basic Guru! Behold! It’s the June TechNet Guru Contest! Your chance to get your name known, raise your profile, get credit where credit is due!...
View ArticleDo you teach Lego Mindstorms EV3? Take it to the next level!
This extension evolves Lego Mindstorms EV3. Lego Mindstorms is a tile-based programming solution. So it just teaches conceptual programming, like Kodu, LightBot, Project Spark, and Scratch Jr (those...
View ArticleMARS Orbit in Small Basic
I wrote many programs as the solutions for monthly challenges. Today I will introduce a couple of my solutions. M A R S orbit – suggestion for JUNE challenge of the month is one of a community...
View Article“Learn to Program with Small Basic”– Book Review by Middle School Teacher,...
Today’s guest blogger is Martin Fish! Today he’s reviewing Small Basic and the book, “Learn to Program with Small Basic” (No Starch Press | Amazon). Martin Fish is a middle school Coding and Robotics...
View ArticleSmall Basic – 3D Visualisation
Introduction This blog is about a 3D visualisation extension that has been available in the LitDev extension for a few years now. 3D rendering can be complex, but once the basics of 2D movement, events...
View ArticleSmall Basic – International Resources Update 2016
This is an update summary of a TechNet Wiki article Small Basic: International Resources. The asterisk (*) marks are new from February 2015. Language IDE Dictionary* Reference Guide Curriculum Wiki...
View ArticleBook Review: “Learn to Program with Small Basic”– from Middle and Senior...
We’re proud to get some great feedback from an experienced schoolteacher! The guest author of this blog post is Susan Nicholson. Susan Nicholson is a Business and Computing Teacher at Ellenbrook...
View ArticleSmall Basic Art with Turtle
I think we can create a lot of art with Turtle. Following list is a sample. GraphicsWindow.Title = "Turtle Randome Drawing" GraphicsWindow.BackgroundColor = "Black" gw = 598 gh = 428 xo = gw / 2 yo =...
View ArticleSmall Basic Guru Winners – May 2016
All the votes are in! And click here for all the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, May 2016 !!!! We want to thank Philip and Nonki for some great articles in May! Small Basic Technical Guru –...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Talking to Raspberry Pi
This blog is about communicating with a Raspberry Pi using Small Basic. I summarise a Gold Medal award winning TechNet Wiki article by Philip Munts. Follow the links to see Philip’s original article...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Stripes Sample
I wrote a program Stripes (FTQ210). How do you like these?
View ArticleSmall Basic July Challenges – Rotating Text, Chain with Physics, Polygon...
You can enter the challenge here: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e0606b7b-bd23-45b5-9339-abefe62cf42d/challenge-of-the-month-july-2016?forum=smallbasic These challenges are intended for...
View ArticleSmall Basic Extension – Micro Maestro Servo Controller
Today’s guest blogger is Zock77 Pololu’s Micro Maestro Servo Controller Hey guys! I just got a maestro servo control board and hooked it up to the Oculus with Smallbasic! It works really well! The...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Case-Insensitive
Small Basic is case-insensitive. But how? Following characters have upper and lower case. Latin (ex. A, a) Greek (ex. Β, β) Cyrillic (ex. Д, д) Armenian (ex. Ե, ե) Following texts are...
View ArticleSmall Basic Gurus needed for July!
Come forth all you technical Small Basic gurus and word wizards! It’s time to show us what you’ve got, what you know, what you found out! Spare your fellow professionals from the same mistake! Share...
View ArticleSmall Basic Featured Programs – Multi-Colored Spirals
In the June Challenges, LitDev included a great Graphics Challenge: Graphics Challenge: Draw a multi-coloured spiral And the challenge began! Coding Cat started us off on June 1st: I love the...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Gather Code Samples
When I started to learn BASIC, there was a reference manual which has a simple sample code for each statement. The picture above is a page of the manual. For each statement [Function], [Syntax],...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Traditional Patterns
Do you know any traditional patterns in your country? In Japan, there are a lot of patterns. Today I introduce some of them. If you can decompose a pattern into some shapes (such like rectangles,...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Exploring New Logos – Part 1
In the Small Basic team, we have a great designer, Ram, who is helping us explore new logos. Please keep in mind that these logos are currently being used for internal Microsoft projects. We aren’t...
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