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The Official Blog of Microsoft Small Basic
Small Basic 1.2 Quick Review
I tried Small Basic 1.2 on my PC. Today I'd like to share some topics about Small Basic 1.2. Kinect...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 10/05/2015
Small Basic 1.2 est arrivé : Support de Kinect et Correction de bug (fr-FR)
La communauté Small Basic est fière de vous annoncer qu'une nouvelle version de Small...
Author: Yan Grenier - MTFC Date: 10/03/2015
Small Basic 1.2 Released with Kinect Support and Bug Fixes
Michael Scherotter is a Media Experience Evangelist at Microsoft who works with media companies to...
Author: Synergist Date: 10/01/2015
Small Basic Teachers and Educators - Join Our Network!!!
Hello! We've built a network for our computer science teachers! We'd love to have you join us if......
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 09/29/2015
Prime Number Factorization - Small Basic Featured Article
You can find this amazing article from Microsoft MVP Emiliano Musso here, on TechNet Wiki: Prime...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 09/28/2015
How to Make a Check Box - Small Basic Featured Article
Today's featured article is from Nonki Takahashi. We're going to explain the design of the check box...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 09/23/2015
Small Basic gets more Spanish on TechNet Wiki!!!
Special thanks go out to Sandra who made a great run recently at translating and refining more of...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 09/22/2015
Pendulum Sim - Small Basic Featured Program
In the September challenges, LitDev presented us with a... Physics Challenge Animate a physically...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 09/18/2015
Want to be the Microsoft TechNet Small Basic Guru for September?
All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 09/15/2015
Small Basic Challenges: September 2015 - Codes, Clowns, Roulette, & Pendulums!
These challenges are intended for people who are learning to program for the first time or for those...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 09/05/2015
Small Basic: Timer - Featured Article
Our Small Basic Guru Gold Medal Winner from July was... Small Basic Technical Guru - July 2015 Nonki...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 09/04/2015
Small Basic Featured Program - Swimming Shark
Here's a program from NaochanON: https://smallbasic.com/program/?NBL543-3 The August challenges...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 09/01/2015
How to nominate games to be featured on our blog!!!
Got a game or program you made with Small Basic that you want us to review for being featured on...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/28/2015
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery - The Tags are growing! The Tags are growing!
Today's blog post extends off the topic here: UPDATE: Small Basic on TechNet Gallery Which is a list...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/26/2015
Become the August 2015 Small Basic Guru!!! Here's how!
Just add your TechNet Wiki article to this list: TechNet Guru Contributions - August 2015 One winner...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/24/2015
Batting Practice - Small Basic Featured Program
Today, I will introduce a game posted on a Small Basic forum thread Nominate games (or other...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 08/24/2015
What Objects are Missing in Small Basic?
What Objects are missing in Small Basic? Also, if you could move any object from the LitDev...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/21/2015
Small Basic Guru Awards: July 2015 Winners - Nonki's Timer wins big time!!!
Nonki and I battled it out in July on our TechNet Wiki articles (submitted in the TechNet Guru...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/20/2015
Triangle in Small Basic
Today I'd like to introduce collected information about triangle in Small Basic. How to Draw a...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 08/19/2015
Docs.com about Small Basic
Curah! contents have been moved to Docs.com. I once wrote about Curah!. Today, I will write updated...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 08/17/2015
Small Basic in Windows 10 Quick Review
I installed Windows 10 on my Mac mini (with Parallel Desktop 10 for Mac). In Windows 10, I tried to...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 08/03/2015
Small Basic Challenges of the Month - August 2015
These challenges are intended for people who are learning to program for the first time or for those...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/02/2015
Unassigned Variables: X = 0? (Small Basic Featured Thread)
Small Basic handles unassigned variables as equal to zero. The idea is that variables are always...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/23/2015
Microsoft Small Basic Guru Awards - June 2015 Winners!!!
You can find all the TechNet Guru Awards here: The Microsoft TechNet Guru Awards! (June 2015) Let's...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/21/2015
Napier's Constant E for Small Basic
Do you know Napier’s constant e? The e is also known as the base of the natural logarithm. In...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 07/20/2015
Small Basic - About Math.Remainder
I think you know about Math.Remainder operation of Small Basic. But the detail seems not so popular....
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 07/14/2015
UPDATE: Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
The Small Basic category/tag on TechNet Gallery is growing! You'll find more extensions,...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/11/2015
jadamelio’s Small Basic Featured Article - Extensions
One of the most valuable features of Small Basic is the ability to extend and add features to the...
Author: jadamelio Date: 07/10/2015
Be Our July Small Basic Guru! Supply a Sizzling "Sunny Season" Scoop!
Up here in the Northern Hemisphere, things are hotting up! And in TechNet Guru land, hot is cool! So...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/07/2015
Using Command Line Arguments - Updated
In this blog, Vijaye Raji wrote about arguments in Small Basic v0.1 (to v0.5). But from v0.6, the...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 07/06/2015
jadamelio’s Weekly Program Feature - June's Small Basic challenges
June is almost over, and there have been many great submission's to LitDev's Challenge of the Month...
Author: jadamelio Date: 07/01/2015
jadamelio’s Weekly Article Feature - Optimization
Whether you are programming a video game, simulation or any other program where time and performance...
Author: jadamelio Date: 06/30/2015
Small Quest Revealed - Small Basic Featured Program
I introduced this project in a former blog post. Today I will write about the alpha (demo) version...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 06/29/2015
Small Basic Featured Article - All about the Turtle!
Enter the Turtle! I love this new Wiki article from Nonki: Small Basic: Turtle Not only does it have...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/25/2015
jadamelio’s Weekly Program Feature - WireFrame Maze
Back in 2013, Ed wrote a blog post about Old Basic Coder’s 3D Maze and Ray Caster Maze. These...
Author: jadamelio Date: 06/24/2015
Small Basic Encyclopedia
I think TechNet Wiki is a Small Basic Encyclopedia. In TechNet Wiki, now we have more than 300...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 06/22/2015
The Hex Colors in Small Basic
This is a featured TechNet Wiki article from Nonki: Small Basic Getting Started Guide: Appendix B:...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/20/2015
Small Basic Guru Awards - May 2015 Winners!
All the votes are in! And below are the results for the Small Basic Guru Awards, May 2015 !!!! See...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/17/2015
Small Basic - Limits of Literals
I found three types of limits about numeric literals in Small Basic. Following explanation is about...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 06/15/2015
A Sandbox file object - Small Basic - Safe file operations for Seamless Sharing
Sometimes people rant. It's what we do. And sometimes it's awesome! In this particular case, we're...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/13/2015
Small Basic Featured Article - How to Remove Goto Statements
You can argue, why have them in the first place? Well, maybe it's someone else's code, or you were...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/11/2015
Small Basic Game: Foul Sorcery, an update
Sorry I haven't been super punctual with my updates on Foul Sorcery, life has gotten super busy and...
Author: jadamelio Date: 06/10/2015
Draw Curve in Small Basic
Small Basic doesn't have operations to draw curve. But you can easily to draw a Bezier curve. Today...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 06/08/2015
Dragon Versus Turtle - Small Basic Featured Game by Nonki
Here is the latest version of the game: HMP803-5 Move mouse to rotate Turtle Click to throw a star...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/05/2015
A BASIC Emulator - Small Basic Featured Program
Today, I'd like to introduce a ZX Spectrum Emulator written in Small Basic by Tryhest. The ZX...
Author: Nonki Takahashi Date: 06/04/2015
Be our Small Basic Guru of the month! Let us bestow glory and kudos upon you!
Small Basic Gurus... we salute you! You're awesome, and we know it! Your knowledge uploads and nifty...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/03/2015
Small Basic Challenges of the Month - June 2015
These challenges are intended for people who are learning to program for the first time or for those...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/02/2015
Compact Small Basic Explanation
I am giving a small presentation and project proposal to my computer science class regarding Small...
Author: jadamelio Date: 05/29/2015