Microsoft Small Basic provides a Turtle object that lets you draw on the graphics window with a little turtle. You can make the turtle crawl around, drawing wherever you lead it, as demonstrated in the following code that draws the word "Hi!" near the...

If you're interested in creating basic text-based programs, Microsoft Small Basic has TextWindow and Text objects are probably enough for your needs. However, if you're interested in interactive graphical programs (such as games or rich personal productivity...

It's that time in my childrens' lives where they need to practice their basic math facts under a time limit. To help them, I created a simple Microsoft Small Basic program. You can view my code at http://smallbasic.com/program/?FHD214 , or if you have...

The Microsoft Small Basic Shapes object allows you to do the following with shapes in the graphics window , as demonstrated in the following code: Add shapes such as ellipses, images, lines, rectangles, and trianges. These shapes can be animated...

The Microsoft Small Basic graphics window allows you to do the following, as demonstrated in the following code: Change the graphics window's background color, height, width, placement relative to the screen's top-left corner, title, and whether...

As demonstrated in the following code, you can use the Microsoft Small Basic File class to create file directories, access directories' files, and copy files from one file directory to another. You can also read from files and write to files. ' This code...

Microsoft Small Basic supports arrays, which allow you to store items in temporary computer memory. Unlike the stack which allows you to add, read, and remove items in a specific order, arrays allow you to add, read, and remove items in random order....

Microsoft Small Basic supports several mathematical functions, including not only simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, but also comparisons, random numbers, rounding, exponents, logarithms, Pi, arcs, and trigonometry, as demonstrated...

A few more Microsoft Small Basic classes with very methods and properties are: The Sound class, which allows you to work with a computer's sounds and sound files. The Program class, which allows you to work with a running Small Basic program...

Some Microsoft Small Basic classes have very few methods and properties. Among them are: The Desktop class, which allows you to interact with a computer's desktop. The Dictionary class, which allows you to fetch definitions of words over the...

Microsoft Small Basic has a few clock-related properties for the date, year, month, day of the week, hour, minute, second, and even millisecond. They are demonstrated in the following code by using the Clock class: TextWindow.WriteLine("Today is: " +...

Here is some code demonstrating how to use all of the Microsoft Small Basic Text class's methods: TextWindow.Write("What is your first name? ") firstName = TextWindow.Read() TextWindow.Write("What is your last name? ") lastName = TextWindow.Read()...

The For , To , EndFor , Step , While , EndWhile , If , Then , Else , ElseIf , and EndIf keywords are used to help control Microsoft Small Basic program flow, as demonstrated in the following code: ' For only. ' Prints 1 through 10. For i = 1 To 10 ...

This is the first of many posts that demonstrates how to use Microsoft Small Basic to program computers. This post assumes that you've already downloaded and installed Small Basic and that you've already read at least the first 10 pages of the Getting...

I was recently asked to participate in an initiative to help students and beginners learn how to program computers. Once of the tools that we're using for this is Microsoft Small Basic, which you can download and install from the Small Basic web site...

It has been a really long time since I wrote Microsoft Outlook VBA code. But when a customer last week asked me if there was a way to write some VBA code to move selected Inbox items to an Archive folder, I felt right at home. Here's what I came up with...