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Calling all Small Basic Gurus. October readers need feeding!
Feed the readers! Hey you! Want to be a real-life virtual guru? (pun intended) Do you want to win the love and admiration of the community you work in? You can win REAL virtual medals and prove your...
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Small Basic – Arduino Sample Programs
This March LitDev introduced about Arduino on this blog. Today, I’d like to introduce my Small Basic programs using Arduino. The first one is the IR Turtle controller (HLT038). The circuit is like...
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Happy Birthday Small Basic – The 8th Anniversary
Can you read the message on the LCD in this photo? Happy Birthday, Small Basic! Today’s Small Basic program is ' Send Text to Serial Port ' Version 0.1 ' Copyright © 2016 Nonki Takahashi. The MIT...
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Road to Small Basic 1.3 Blog #2 – New Mascots
Welcome to the road to Small Basic 1.3! It’s a long road that’s several months off, but we’ll start updating you with where we’re headed! First, you can see that we’ve done that with the new logo...
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Draw a Pumpkin with Small Basic
Have you read a forum thread October Challenge – Special 31st – Draw a Pumpkin? Add your pumpkin in the thread! By Tryhest: By YLed: By Nonki:
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Small Basic Guru – September 2016 Gold Medal Winner
All the votes are in! And we have a fresh intake of MS and MVP judges too! So below are the results for the Small Basic category of the TechNet Guru Awards, September 2016 !!!! Small Basic Technical...
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Small Basic Challenges of the Month (November 2016): Scrolling Text Banner,...
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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Calling all Small Basic Gurus. November readers need feeding!
“An influential teacher, or popular expert“ Oh mighty reader, we need your enlightenment! Only YOU can show us… the TRUE WAY to code! Win the dedication and adoration of generations to come, by giving...
View ArticleSmall Basic Accessibility – Enlarging the text and Hiding IntelliSense & the...
Small Basic features multiple ways to enlarge the text for accessibility. First, what kind of accessibility is this for? This solves a few accessibility scenarios: Poor Vision – If you cannot see well,...
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Learn Abstract and Concrete with Small Basic
I wrote some programs for learning abstract and concrete. At first I made a subroutine Average(). This routine calculates (a + b) / 2. The concept average is a special (concrete) case of a wider...
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Small Basic – November Community Challenges: Guitar Chords, Drawing Freehand,...
Building off the November Challenges from LitDev: Small Basic Challenges of the Month (November 2016): Scrolling Text Banner, SB Logo, Turtle Mascot, Tic Tac Toe, and Checkers! We have challenges from...
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Calling all Small Basic Gurus. October readers need feeding!
Feed the readers! Hey you! Want to be a real-life virtual guru? (pun intended) Do you want to win the love and admiration of the community you work in? You can win REAL virtual medals and prove your...
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Small Basic Challenges of the Month (November 2016): Scrolling Text Banner,...
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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Small Basic – Think about Textbox UX
Let’s think about textbox UI (user interface) or UX (user experience). Simple way to use textbox in Small Basic is using button to get text from the textbox. The sample program ID is MDP504. By the...
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Microsoft Coding for Kids!!!
Did you know that Microsoft has had tools and programs for kids… for 8 years??? Well, consider yourself informed! Microsoft K-12 CS Tools 1. Small Basic – http://smallbasic.com/ Small Basic started in...
View ArticleWho will be crowned the last Small Basic Guru of 2016!!
Calling all wise men! And Wise Ladies! Join us and rejoice! THE FINAL SMALL BASIC WIKI CHALLENGE OF 2016!! December 2016 Guru, it’s time to share great skills as a TechNet Wiki article and WIN...
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Small Basic December 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 ArticleSmall Basic Troubleshooting: Sound.Play doesn’t work on some versions of...
Issue: Sound.Play doesn’t work on some versions of Windows 10. Specifically, it is no longer working for WAV files and MP3 files. (But built in sounds work fine, such as Sound.PlayBellRing() ). Windows...
View ArticleAlgorithm Basics in Small Basic
Algorithm is combinations of code patterns. Today, I’d like to introduce three basic code patterns. I also wrote a sample program for this blog: LMR321. Sequence Sequence of statements is the...
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Small Basic Guru – September 2016 Gold Medal Winner
All the votes are in! And we have a fresh intake of MS and MVP judges too! So below are the results for the Small Basic category of the TechNet Guru Awards, September 2016 !!!! Small Basic Technical...
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