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Today, I want to highlight an excellent article that starts at the very beginning (a very good place to start). It comes to us from our master Small Basic Wiki author, Nonki Takahashi . You can check out the full article here: The Small Basic Environment...

What do you think? Should we have a Small Basic International Summit? It would be: Online only, for now In English, for now (maybe other languages in the future) 2-3 days with multiple sessions All sessions recorded Cover everything...

Nonki and I battled it out last month in the Small Basic Guru Awards! Here are the results... Small Basic Technical Guru - November 2014 Ed Price - MSFT Small Basic Student Testimonies RZ : ...

Now I'm trying to define a subset of SVG file format. And I'm rewriting Shapes editor for the SVG. Today I'll write about that. What is SVG SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is one of XML (Extensible Markup Language). XML is a text file. So, Small...

Merry Christmas! http://smallbasic.com/program/?NGP714

Today I'd like to pick up programs to calculate Roman numerals from the Small Basic forum. The first ones are described in a forum thread Post your sample source code here and get featured on our blogs! (Part II) . SFP007 by Glennium Please enter...

If not, then why did you click this???? Go away!!!! If so, then keep reading! If you have 100 Forum Answers and 1,000 Recognition Points, then you qualify to become an Answerer in the Small Basic Forum! Just post in this thread , and I'll make you...

I was inspired from a Small Basic forum thread written by Bob Irving. Then I tried to use revision control tools for Small Basic and wrote a TechNet Wiki article about that. This article introduces two revision control tools - Git Gui and CodePlex...

Have a go at some of this month's Small Basic Challenges . Post your solutions. partial solutions, see what other come up with and discuss any methods etc on the forum site linked above. Small Challenges Write a program to find the square...

Calling all wise men! AND WISE WOMEN!!! Join us and rejoice! The time for giving is upon us again! A time for family (community) and gifts of knowledge! Why not wrap up a little something extra special this year. After all, tis the season...

Today I picked up a ray tracing program from a thread Post your sample source code here and get featured on our blogs! (Part II) in Small Basic forum. Thank you ThirdMagus for sharing this program! Import: KCH420-0 It's a cute lil' raytracer...

Here are some great Polyline Editor programs from Nonki Takahashi : This is his first step for community suggestions 2 by Nonki: CBF139 . This is his second step for community suggestion 2 by Nonki: CBF139-0 . [Open] and [Save] are not...

Today's featured program is a great animated Solar System by a young Small Basic developer. In the words of his parent, " This program, developed by my 12 years old son, Adrian, provides a planet movement simulation, with an acurate rotation period...

In the November 2014 challenges ... LitDev included this Physics challenge: Physics Challenge Write a program to model the movement of a yo-yo. Try to get the rotation consistent with the up and down movement, and perhaps even add the jerk...

What kind of pattern can you see in cross section of a tree? Stripe? Concentric circles? I made a Small Basic program to draw wood grain. The program ID is KFJ748 .

Mouse Position Methods There are 2 ways to get the position of the mouse cursor in Small Basic. gwX = GraphicsWindow . MouseX gwY = GraphicsWindow . MouseY mX = Mouse . MouseX mY = Mouse . MouseY GraphicsWindow.MouseX(Y) ...

Find all the October TechNet Gurus here: The Microsoft TechNet Guru Awards! (October 2014) Congrats to Nonki for a fantastic showing in October! Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2014 Nonki...

Today I will talk about Network Object in Small Basic programming language. Network Object is very simple. There are only two operations. That's all. One is DownloadFile(). The other is GetWebPageContents(). Network.DownloadFile() downloads a network...

I added a chart object to the LitDev extension , LDChart. So far it just has a pie and doughnut variant. The C# extension source code is also available for download if you want to see how it is done or even modify to create your own. Sample Code...

Check out this funny text-based RPG from Dinomite07 : BDB469 - Text Based RPG You're going to have to take out some zombies. I think we should do an RPG for a future Small Basic Challenge. - Ninja Ed

Here are 3 text games from Dinomite07 . These were school assignments! XMC288 - BlackJack SBN038 - Rock Paper Scissors LGB100 - Guessing Game Good examples of basic text games you can make with Small Basic! Enjoy! - Ninja...

Three days until yesterday, I had participated in the Game Programming Workshop 2014 at Hakone in Japan. I saw many presentations about many kind of games such like chess, shogi, Go, Reversi, mahjong, magic chess, Are You a Werewolf?, Xiangqi, Connect6...

November has been designated National Novel Writing Month and National Blog Posting Month . But we don't want that! We want a professional wiki article! TechNet Wiki provides anyone the chance to contribute Microsoft technology related content to...

Today I'd like to introduce a great thread in Small Basic forum, "Neural Network Extension" . This extension was written by EzyMCP . You can download the extension and the sample code. SmallBasicANN.dll and SmallBasicANN.xml are the extension files...

In my Halloween program, there is a bats animation. But at the first, the animation didn't work well in browser (with Silverlight). I used Timer object for this animation. Today, I'd like to write about tips about this. The　conclusion is: Timer...