Small Basic

A few weeks ago I announced the Small Basic on TechNet Wiki Contest . Last week I provided an update . Today we're going to announce our winners! The Microsoft judges were Mike H, Ray FAST, and me. The first category is Best Article . We're...

Today's featured program is Click the Button . Gah! I edited it and lost the embed. I can't get it back. Here's an image of the program: Today's featured program is "Click the Button" by Timo Sö . It's very challenging. How far can you...

This content contest is coming to a close. Read about it here: Small Basic - New TechNet Wiki Contest!!! Here are our contestants for the "Best Article": http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13342.small-basic.aspx - Noah...

Last Updated: 5/20/13 - Added Karen Morris' son. 5/18 - Added Kelly B & Haydn and Tere S's son. This blog post is a work in progress. It will grow as we collect testimonials. Please add to it by leaving comments below. Please include the age and...

You can find the challenges of the month in the Small Basic forums . Here are the October challenges . For the September challenge , the Wave Challenge was offered in the Physics Challenge section: Create a program to simulate waves. Quite a general...

Today's guest blogger is Coding Cat, Matthew Parets: Coding Cat's Profile Coding Cat is Matthew Parets, a Computer Science teacher, one that I would have loved to have had. You probably would too, after you read this blog post. Here is...

This blog post originates with the question in the Small Basic FAQ . We also wanted to give the community a chance to answer this question in depth in the TechNet Wiki article . What are the unique features of the Small Basic language? Imperative...

Today, we have a special guest blogger, Philip Conrod ! He is sharing with us an excerpt from their book for kids, Beginning Microsoft Small Basic by Philip Conrod and Lou Tylee. You can find their books and other materials at the Computer Science For...

Small Basic is now on TechNet Wiki ! Thanks to Noah Buscher , we already have two Small Basic articles on TechNet Wiki: Small Basic How to Create a Small Basic Extension Thanks to Nonki Takahashi for translating them into Japanese already...

Learn how to use Small Basic and to graduate to Visual Basic... in 6 steps! Lesson 1: Getting Started with Small Basic Lesson 1.1: Introduction to Small Basic - Estimated time to complete this sub-lesson: 30 minutes Lesson 1.2: Statements...

The impossible goal is that this list will eventually contain every quality extension made for Small Basic. I'm starting with some listed in the Small Basic Forums, but you should also come back later, because this list will evolve over time. ...

Today we're featuring 1942 - by Laurent20 . For better performance, play the game locally by going here . Or play it online here . It's amazing how far we've come, huh? I remember playing this in the arcade. Now, in my chair. Well great...

Today's guest blogger is Nonki Takahashi : About Nonki in his own words: I am an amateur programmer. I used to program with one of BASIC language on an 8-bit micro computer when I was a collage student. At 2010, I started to program...

In the Small Basic FAQ , it mentions there are 14 keywords: What are the unique features of the Small Basic language? Size The Small Basic language consists of just 14 keywords. ========== Of the 14 keywords, we'll cover 16 of them in...

3/9/13 UPDATE : Added Basketball, Catch Game, Graph, LED Display, Metronome, and Weather. ============= The goal is that this list contains a lot of Small Basic programs. We're looking for interactive programs that are easy to use, fun, and have...

From Coding Cat : Working on developing projects for my Intro to Programming class, I reminded myself of an article I read back in the early days of the PC. The article was in one of the first PC only magazines, and it was publishing the results...

Welcome to the monthly SmallBasic Challenge! 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 SmallBasic. Some will be easy, some will be hard - but...

Assuming you use Small Basic, of course. =^) We'll interview key community folks, we'll discuss Small Basic education, feature some programs, and enjoy some community conversations. What are your ideas? - Tall Basic Ed

It's that time again! This week's featured program is SPACE INVADERS! This fast-paced alien-killing game was created by NaochanON. This program works best when played locally, but you our can try it out in your browser below!

Hello everyone! It is my pleasure to announce that with the help of Ed Price, the Small Basic blog is now back! I will be posting new Small Basic news, extensions, programs, and more! Please stay tuned!

After more than two years of pre-release versions of Small Basic, we are finally releasing the 1.0 version. Although we know that there a number of features we still haven’t implemented, we feel that Small Basic now has a solid set of the core features...

Czech is now part of the Small Basic family and it is released for the first time in this latest version 0.95. We also updated some of the Korean strings after receiving some great feedback from one teacher from Korean. No functionality has been added...

With 3 more languages available, it was hard for us to hold them to the next version. So we have released version 0.91 to include Hebrew, Croatian and Iberian Portuguese. This brings the count of supported languages to 18! No functionality has been added...

If you are looking for a self-paced learning or teaching Small Basic tutorial, check out http://computerscienceforkids.com .  Phil Conrod has a passion for writing tutorials and books aimed at beginner programmers and he’s done an excellent job of...

Lynn Langit and Llewellyn Falco are very active in the programming world, chasing their passion of teaching programming to kids.  They have been using Small Basic successfully, for over a year now, to introduce hundreds of kids to programming. ...