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:
View ArticleSmall 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...
View ArticleSmall 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...
View ArticleCalling 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,...
View ArticleSmall Basic October 2016 Challenges of the Month – Spinning Top, Tic Tac Toe,...
Hello Small Basic people! Post your solutions here, in this Small Basic Forum thread:...
View ArticleSmall 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...
View ArticleLearn 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...
View ArticleSmall 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...
View ArticleSmall 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleSmall 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...
View ArticleHappy New Year with Small Basic
Happy New Year! Today I will write about 2017 new year Small Basic challenges. The first one is December 31st – Special Challenge of the Month. Now we have three programs for this challenge. by...
View ArticleSmall Basic Challenges of the Month – January 2017 (featuring Johannes...
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 – Kinect Motion Recorder
I wrote a new program – Motion Recorder (NVH911). This program uses Kinect sensor to record motion capture data into a text box. Push [REC] button to start recording. Push [■] button to stop. Push...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Artificial Neuron
I wrote a program about simple artificial neuron (PQK191). This neuron has two inputs x1, x2 and one output y. And the output can be shown as: y = f(x1*w1 + x2*w2 + b). While, w1, w2 are weights, b...
View ArticleWho will be crowned the First Small Basic Guru of 2017!!
Maybe that title should end in question marks, like this… Who will be crowned the First Small Basic Guru of 2017?? Anyhoo… Time for a fresh start! [The Guru is the means of realisation. “There is no...
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