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Small Basic – Now with SilverLight
One Program, Two Platforms!Did you know that with Small Basic v0.8, you can write a program or a game and have it run identically on both your desktop and the browser? This makes it super easy to...
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Optical Illusions
LitDev, a very active Small Basic Forum participant has started a thread with a bunch of Small Basic programs that illustrate fascinating optical illusions. Here are some below – click on the link...
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Sorting Visualization in Small Basic
Zeven, a Small Basic forumer has created a very cool sample that visualizes different sorting algorithms. It is neat to see and compare the efficiencies of the algorithms. You can download the...
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Tower of Hanoi
Alex, a 9 year old programmer from Russia has been learning programming using Small Basic, and has showcased his new learning by porting over the famous Tower of Hanoi to Small Basic. You can check...
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Small Basic V0.9 is here!
Marking the 300k download milestone, comes the 9th installment of Small Basic, the fastest and the best yet! This version of Small Basic packs a ton of bug fixes, performance improvements and some of...
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Teaching programming to kids
Lynn Langit and Llewellyn Falco are very active in the programming world, chasing their passion of teaching programming to kids. They have been using Small Basic successfully, for over a year now, to...
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Small Basic Tutorials
If you are looking for a self-paced learning or teaching Small Basic tutorial, check out http://www.computerscienceforkids.com/microsoft-small-basic. Phil Conrod has a passion for writing tutorials...
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Small Basic V0.91 is more international than ever!
With 3 more languages available, it was hard for us to hold them to the next version. So we have released version 0.91 to include Hebrew, Croatian and Iberian Portuguese. This brings the count of...
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Small Basic v0.95 speaks another language!
Czech is now part of the Small Basic family and it is released for the first time in this latest version 0.95. We also updated some of the Korean strings after receiving some great feedback from one...
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Small Basic 1.0 is here!
After more than two years of pre-release versions of Small Basic, we are finally releasing the 1.0 version. Although we know that there a number of features we still haven’t implemented, we feel that...
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Small Basic - The 50 Line Challenge
From Coding Cat: Working on developing projects for my Intro to Programming class, I reminded myself of an article I read back in the early days of the PC. The article was in one of the first PC only...
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Small Basic Program Gallery
11/17/15 UPDATE: Added several Science related programs, Triple Six, and Small Block Builder. On 9/3/13: Added Eora Duck Hunt. On 6/29: Added SBCraft. On 6/12: Added String Searcher. On 5/22: Added...
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What are the 14 Keywords of Small Basic?
In the Small Basic FAQ, it mentions there are 14 keywords:What are the unique features of the Small Basic language?SizeThe Small Basic language consists of just 14 keywords.==========Of the 14...
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Small Basic Extensions Gallery
UPDATED 11/2/15: Added LitDev and EV3 Basic. On 6/13/13: Added Timo So's MoreOptions Extension. On 5/31/13: Added NaochanOn's Barcode Extension.============================FEATURED EXTENSIONS:Lego...
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6 Lessons to learn Small Basic and graduate to Visual Basic!
Learn how to use Small Basic and to graduate to Visual Basic... in 6 steps!Lesson 1: Getting Started with Small BasicLesson 1.1: Introduction to Small Basic - Estimated time to complete this...
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Small Basic - Elementary & Middle Student Testimonials
Last Updated: 09/23/15 - JCGarrido's son, Adrian, age 12. 11/28/14: Der_Programmier, age 9. 10/21/13: Added Anne's son. 8/25/13:Added Lisa M's daughter, Amber. On 6/20/13: Added 8Bit Pony. On 6/10:...
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Small Basic Featured Program - Turtle Maze
This is an image only... (Click here to play the game.)Nonki updated this game on 12/3/12: http://smallbasic.com/program/?XHL585-5What fun! You can only do a few things though...Click Next to change...
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Small Basic Tutorial: Creating Your First Program
Today we have a guest blogger: Noah Buscher! Check out Noah's first tutorial... about your first Small Basic program. Small Basic is a .NET language created by Microsoft. It allows the beginner...
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Small Basic TeamChallenge - Tower Defense Game
Small Basic community member Timo Sö had a winning idea: to start a TeamChallenge competition. The challenge was to create a "Tower Defense Game" in one week. They developed their games from 12/3/2010...
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How to convert text into Binary
This fantastic chart comes from today's guest blogger, Liam McSherry.In Liam's words...============================= If anyone wants to know how to convert text into a series of binary digits, I...
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