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Small 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...
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Small 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...
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Microsoft 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...
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Small 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...
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Happy 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...
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Small 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...
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Small 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...
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Small 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...
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Who 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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Want to be the Microsoft TechNet Small Basic Guru for February 2017?
February 2017 Small Basic Guru, it’s time to share great skills as a TechNet Wiki article and WIN medal(s). Medals? Yes, you can share multiple articles in the same or different categories! Now,...
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Small Basic – Creating Bart Simpsons’ head in 3D!
This comes from Tryhest. He started with a work in progres: 3d bart skull DWT117 He then continued adding facetes: KBV119 optimized code structure removed dot display facet counter added finished...
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Small Basic – 3D Bart Simpson Skull
Yes. You heard that right! Using the LitDev extension’s LD3DView object, you too can create Bart Simpson! http://litdev.co.uk/#LitDev Extension Documentation Bart’s face comes courtesy of Tryhest. The...
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Small Basic – Language Packs
This blog is about how to use Small Basic with different regional langauges. Available Languages Using Small Basic with different languages has grown. Version 1.2 now supports the following languages....
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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...
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December 2016 Small Basic Guru Awards!!! Accessibility and Troubleshooting...
Here are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, December 2016 !!!! This blog post highlights the Small Basic category. To see all the awards, head here: December 2016 TechNet Guru Winners! . So,...
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Small Basic Authors take some titles in the Top 20 TechNet Guru Award Winners
So it looks like once upon a time, I wrote this blog post: Who are the Top 20 TechNet Guru Award Winners? Kamlesh recently followed it up with a much better version (and up to date): Who are the Top...
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Small Basic Challenges of the Month – March 2017
These challenges from LitDev 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...
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