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Big News! Small Basic available on Windows App Store!
Bring out the trumpets! Roll out the red carpet! We’ve got big news for you today, because Small Basic 1.2 is now available on the Windows App Store! That’s right, you can go download it directly...
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Learn Small Basic
Are you ready to continue learning about Small Basic? Here are lots of options! Curriculum Books: Learn to Program with Small Basic – by Ed Price (me) and Majed Marji 7 Small Basic books from Computer...
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Small Basic – Challenges of the Month (April 2017)
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 Wise Men and Women! Small Basic Gurus Needed! Apply Within! No...
With April fools out of the way, now let’s find an April genius! The name “April” is derived from the Latin verb “aperire“, meaning “to open” in reference to being the season when trees & flowers...
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Small Basic – Multilayered Perceptron
This is the continued story from Small Basic – Artificial Neuron. Last time, I told about simple perceptron (artificial neuron) can become such as OR, AND and NAND operations. Single perceptron is...
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Small Basic with PowerShell
Do you know that a Small Basic program can be run as a command? Today I’d like to introduce my CUI (character user interface) program WordList (BKM132-2) and how it will work with PowerShell. WordList...
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Small Basic – Binary Quiz
Are you familiar to binary? Today I will introduce a binary quiz program BGH855-1. Guess hexadecimal or decimal from binary. Have fun. See Also binary to decimal converter – Small Basic Featured...
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Talking Small Basic at the 2017 TEALS Puget Sound CS Fair
On April 21st, Ed, Holly and I talked Small Basic with around 1700 high school computer science students (and their teachers!) at the 2017 TEALS Puget Sound CS Fair. It was a blast! We had a range...
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Book Info + Reviews: “The Developer’s Reference Guide to Microsoft Small...
Several years ago Philip Conrod and Lou Tylee teamed up together to write and publish The Developer’s Reference Guide to Microsoft Small Basic. Kidware Software has actually published seven Small...
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Small Basic Challenges of the Month – May 2017
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 – Musical Score
Once I wrote a program FQH921-0 to show a musical score for Challenge of the Month – March 2016. Today I rewrote this program not to use PNG file but to use Unicode characters. The new program is...
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Microsoft Small Basic Gurus Needed for May 2017! Apply Within! No One Turned...
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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Small Basic – Pictionary Project
I started new project especially for non-native kids to understand Small Basic keywords with pictures. Purpose Small Basic is a programming language for kids. Little difficult to understand English...
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Decatur HS Computer Science Club: Small Basic Workshop
Ed and Liz took their show (er, workshop) on the road and taught Small Basic to some amazing students in the Decatur High School Computer Science Club on May 17th for the next-to-last...
View ArticleSmall Basic – International Resources Update 2017
This is an update summary of a TechNet Wiki article Small Basic: International Resources. The asterisk (*) marks are new from June 2016. In IDE (Small Basic Environment), 4 more languages are...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Syntax Highlighter
I wrote a code block formatter SKC235-2 mainly for TechNet Wiki article. This tool was used also for this blog. But after MSDN blogs changing to WordPress platform, following issues have came up....
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Other Small Basic Systems
There are some other Small Basic programming language systems. Today, I will introduce three Small Basic systems. Fun Basic Fun Basic is a Windows Store App written by Phil Trelford. Fun Basic...
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Finish June Strong – Small Basic Challenges and Guru Wiki Contest!
First of all, what are the June Small Basic Challenges? Challenge of the Month – June 2017 These challenges are intended for people who are learning to program for the first time or for those returning...
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Small Basic – Textbox UX (Part 2)
Question: How to show entered words in textbox on any other coordinate “after pressing enter key” was asked by msdn.yogesh last October in Small Basic forum. And yesterday he asked again: how can i do...
View ArticleSmall Basic: Teaching Girls to Code! — What are we doing and where are we...
Small Basic is focusing on teaching girls to code. As we build improvements like the online version we describe in this video, the improvements are also beneficial as we teach boys as well as girls....
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