Small Basic – Stripes Sample
I wrote a program Stripes (FTQ210). How do you like these?
View ArticleSmall Basic July Challenges – Rotating Text, Chain with Physics, Polygon...
You can enter the challenge here: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e0606b7b-bd23-45b5-9339-abefe62cf42d/challenge-of-the-month-july-2016?forum=smallbasic These challenges are intended for...
View ArticleSmall Basic Extension – Micro Maestro Servo Controller
Today’s guest blogger is Zock77 Pololu’s Micro Maestro Servo Controller Hey guys! I just got a maestro servo control board and hooked it up to the Oculus with Smallbasic! It works really well! The...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Case-Insensitive
Small Basic is case-insensitive. But how? Following characters have upper and lower case. Latin (ex. A, a) Greek (ex. Β, β) Cyrillic (ex. Д, д) Armenian (ex. Ե, ե) Following texts are...
View ArticleSmall Basic Gurus needed for July!
Come forth all you technical Small Basic gurus and word wizards! It’s time to show us what you’ve got, what you know, what you found out! Spare your fellow professionals from the same mistake! Share...
View ArticleSmall Basic Featured Programs – Multi-Colored Spirals
In the June Challenges, LitDev included a great Graphics Challenge: Graphics Challenge: Draw a multi-coloured spiral And the challenge began! Coding Cat started us off on June 1st: I love the...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Gather Code Samples
When I started to learn BASIC, there was a reference manual which has a simple sample code for each statement. The picture above is a page of the manual. For each statement [Function], [Syntax],...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Traditional Patterns
Do you know any traditional patterns in your country? In Japan, there are a lot of patterns. Today I introduce some of them. If you can decompose a pattern into some shapes (such like rectangles,...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Exploring New Logos – Part 1
In the Small Basic team, we have a great designer, Ram, who is helping us explore new logos. Please keep in mind that these logos are currently being used for internal Microsoft projects. We aren’t...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Downloading the LitDev Extension
So, I was downloading the LitDev extension for Small Basic onto a new computer, and I thought I’d blog about it while it was fresh in my mind! =^) If you haven’t tried the LitDev extension, you’re...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Draw Moon Quiz
I’d like to introduce a new game program Draw Moon Quiz (BNN571). A moon picture is displayed on left. So, select patterns on top and type the sequence on the bottom text box then push [Draw] button....
View ArticleFlag of Brazil drawn with Small Basic
Rio Olympics have been started! Today I’ll show you a program to draw a flag of Brazil (NCF628). One of the challenges last month was rotating text. This program has the function. To draw rotating...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Design Your Original Car
To draw a car with Small Basic is not so difficult. Why don’t you draw your own car? Program sample above is KFF238.
View ArticleSmall Basic August 2016 Challenges: Breakout Game, Find & Replace, Fixed...
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...
View ArticleSmall Basic Gurus, step up and be known!
August Gurus step up and show us your knowledge on the latest and the greatest technologies Microsoft have to offer! And for your efforts, eminent leaders in your technology will evaluate your...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Flipping Shapes
Today, I’ll introduce a sample program to flip a picture drawn with Shapes object. The program ID is MMF211. This program uses Shapes.Move(), Shapes.Zoom() and Shapes.Rotate() operations to flip the...
View ArticleSmall Basic – Characters for Games
There are some characters that can be used to create game programs. Have fun with useful characters! Wingdings and Webdings Fonts Wingdings and Webdings fonts have graphical glyph in them. Sample...
View ArticleThe Small Basic Guru Awards – July 2016
The Small Basic Guru Awards celebrate the technical articles on TechNet, contributed from valued wiki authors like YOU! Each month, the contributions are scored by a panel of judges, and the winners of...
View ArticleGUEST BLOG + VIDEO: Installing & Running Microsoft Small Basic in Azure
This is a guest blog post from Deva [MSFT]. You can see Deva’s regular blog posts here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/deva ============ Recently, i created a new Azure VM (virutal machine) in Azure...
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