Today's guest blogger is Jibba Jabba (Rick Murphy)... Jibba Jabba's Profile About Rick Murphy... amateur programmer. Began with Small Basic in Dec 2012. Last job was as a kitchen supervisor for 8 years. Now taking a break. Like cooking, love programming. Rick wrote this great bit about what...

The answer comes from the creator of Small Basic, Vijaye Raji... How is Small Basic different from QBASIC? Unlike QBASIC, Small Basic is based on .Net and can consume (not produce) "Objects". It supports distinct Operations, Properties and Events. It doesn't have GOSUB :) How...

Today's featured program is SB Chomper, a packman clone. It's fantastic! You can play it here: Chomper (Packman) - by Anthony Yarrell /QBasicLover Who is Anthony Yarrell (goes by QBasicLover)? Here is his bio in his own words... "I (Anthony Yarrell, a.k.a. QBasicLover) am an office...

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We've spoken to college students about Small Basic in the past and I've heard Small Basic explained and presented. That led me to realize that we need a short and concise explanation for the existence of Small Basic... Small Basic exists to help students as young as age eight learn the foundations...

Learn all about Small Basic by using the curriculum. With the curriculum, you can lean Small Basic with separate lessons - just like you would in a classroom. You can download the curriculum, which includes PowerPoint decks to teach from. As a teacher or as a student learning Small Basic on your own...

Learn more about Small Basic and find detailed samples by reading sample chapters from one of three e-books that we are providing to you at no cost. If you like using the e-book format, we have links on each page to where you can purchase the complete e-book. The Developer's Reference...

As one of the many collaborations we're working on with the Kodu team, they featured me in their Community Spotlight. Click here to read my interview with the Kodu team I feature some of my answers here: What sort of lessons can students learn in Small Basic? (Kodu Community Spotlight: Part...

As one of the many collaborations we're working on with the Kodu team, they featured me in their Community Spotlight. Click here to read my interview with the Kodu team Here are a few of the questions they asked me... What sort of lessons can students learn in Small Basic? You learn...

For the challenges this month... March Challenge of the Month Here is a challenge from Litdev... Graphical Challenge 2 Write a program with an arrow that rotates to always point towards the mouse. I'm featuring a solution created by Zock77 : SFP468 Have a great day...

For our March Challenge of the Month ... One of Nonki's Community Challenges was... (d) Create a metronome. And NaochanON created a great metronome! Click here to play with it: LWQ467-0 For fun, crank the pitch up to 195, and enjoy! You'd think the arm would fall off when going...

Small Basic Abacus is from Harry Hardjono. Very cool. It even has a sound. Check out the Abucus here: CKX791 Here is what it looks like: I think including the numbers is a nice touch. What do you think? Would you change anything? - Ninja Ed

Here's an interesting discussion of Sierpenski Triangles: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbasic/thread/15a4a5bf-98d8-42f9-93ce-7246ef584a2c Here are two examples that were created in Small Basic: Random Sierpinski Triangle - by RubikWizard Sierpinski Triangle - by Stendec...

I'm not sure if this is a game or a program... Silly Story Writer - KKK028 You have to run it locally, but it's hilarious. This comes from Talgon96 . In Talgon's words, "It's not graphically pleasing but it will make you laugh." Indeed! Well this blog post is way too short. And...

Zock77 completed the latest version of Tankinator! It's super addicting! Check it out! You can get it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?t8tvn4b3eyyty3g Features added: 1) Sound was added 2) Random projectiles coming out of turrets bug fixed 3) Added more turrets (There are 10 now)...

5/22 UPDATE : Added Chess Board, Go Simulator, Football Pong (Games), Aquarium (Graphical), Abacus Beads, Nonki Calculator (Math), Piano and Shapes (Productivity). On 5/18: Added the amazing 3D Color RayCaster Maze, 3D Maze, Small Basic Chomper, Snow Man Maze, NaochanPong, and Minesweeper (Games). On...

2/17/13 UPDATE: Added the 0.4.1a patch link and info. ======================= Today's featured Small Basic extension comes from Liam McSherry . Here is information about the extension in his words... Extended Small Basic Library, or ESL , is a small but powerful extension for Microsoft Small...

2/16/13 UPDATE: I added clock #4, Nonki's Pendulum Clock. ================= This is another one of our February Small Basic Coding Challenges from LitDev! Graphical Challenge Create a visually fun clock. #1. NaochanON 's Water Clock: TDG816-0 #2. Math Man 's Pi...

UPDATES : Added Nonki's heart as Heart #3 on 2/13. Added Nonki's butterfly as Butterfly #3 on 2/11. =========================== Check out our February Small Basic Coding Challenges from LitDev! Community challenges are from Math Man and Amir CPS. Today we're going to look at two challenges...

This fantastic chart comes from today's guest blogger, Liam McSherry . In Liam's words... ============================= If anyone wants to know how to convert text into a series of binary digits, I quickly made this little graphic. Note that this sort of system applies to all radices...

Ha! I saw an episode of "Big Bang Theory" where they were arguing over the binary translation of English (how many zeros and ones there should be). Amir had made a Decimal to Binary converter that I featured , and I mentioned that a text to binary converter would be pretty sweet. Well now (through...

From Wikipedia: "The Vigenère cipher is a method of encrypting alphabetic text by using a series of different Caesar ciphers based on the letters of a keyword... The first well documented description of a polyalphabetic cipher was formulated by Leon Battista Alberti around 1467 and used a metal...

From Gungan37 in this Forums thread ... ====================== I have spent the last few months writing the IO Extension in C#. It provides hundreds of methods to do all kinds of different things. It includes support for: Network server / client communications Use of over 20 Windows Forms...

Ever want to convert a decimal number to binary? A binary number to decimal? No? Well now you can anyway!!! =^) http://smallbasic.com/smallbasic.com/program/?THJ835 Amir CPS created this sweet converter for us. Amir created it in VB first and then in Small Basic. To start, just enter...

Today's featured game was nominated by CodingLikeCrazy . In CLC's words... ======== Soda Pop Showdown is the name of the game I would like to nominate. it is made by JKrueg . Click here to play Soda Pop Showdown! The code is SND683. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/profile/jkrueg/?ws...