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Small Basic – Hardware Story
It’s time for us to shout on a rooftop and proclaim all the wonderful hardware capabilities that you’re going to find in Small Basic! Today we’re highlighting four powerful capabilities: Lego...
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Small Basic Extension Manager
I created a utility to manage Small Basic extensions. It can be downloaded from TechNet Gallery. If you would like an extension added to the database, or have other suggestions then please leave a...
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Fractals in Small Basic
There is a list of fractal programs in a blog article here. But, I’d like to update and summarize again about fractal programs in this post. Fractal Tree I think this may be the first fractal program...
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Small Basic – May 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 ArticleCharacters for Names in Small Basic
General rule for variable, label, subroutine names are: starts with “_” or alphabet character. followed by “_”, alphabet or number. But I found some multi-byte characters can be used for these names in...
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May Day! We need YOU as a TechNet Small Basic Guru!
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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Turtle Brick – Small Basic Sample Program
I wrote a 2D brick program controlled with Turtle. The program ID is KDH145. You can use five commands to control Turtle: Left, Right, Up, Down, and Fill. Have fun!
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Drawing Voxel and Cuboid in Small Basic
Today, I’d like to introduce my new program to draw voxels and cuboids. The program ID is QRC070. A voxel is a 3-D pixel. As a next step, I’m planning to make this program using 3-point perspective.
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Small Basic – June Challenges: Psychedelic Spiral, MARS orbit, Anagrams,...
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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ANNOUNCING THE 20 SMALL BASIC BOOK GIVEAWAY WINNERS: “Learn to Program with...
ABOUT THE GIVEAWAY In today’s blog post, we’ll dig into a Small Basic sample that will select 10 random winners from folks who took the Small Basic 1.2 Feedback Survey! Awhile ago we had a promotion to...
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Date Calculator – Small Basic Sample Program
I wrote a date calculator program in Small Basic. The program ID is JQQ629. This program calculates days between two dates. To calculate days, dates are converted to Julian days. There are two...
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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...
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MARS 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...
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“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...
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Small 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...
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Small 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 =...
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Small 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 –...
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Small 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...
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