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Chomper (pack-man) - Small Basic Featured Game
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1 day ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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 ...
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How to teach yourself programming in Two Words!!!
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3 days ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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Why does Small Basic exist?
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5 days ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Small Basic Curriculum
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26 days ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Small Basic E-Books
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1 month ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Some answers about Small Basic Education (Kodu Community Spotlight Part 2)
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1 month ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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What sort of lessons can students learn in Small Basic? (Kodu Community Spotlight: Part 1)
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1 month ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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The Arrow Can See You - Small Basic Monthly Challenge
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2 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Create a Metronome in Small Basic - Community Challenge
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2 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Small Basic Abacus - Featured Program
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2 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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? ...
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Sierpenski Triangles - Small Basic Featured Programs
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2 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Silly Story Writer - Featured Small Basic Program
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2 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Tankinator ver 0.03 - Small Basic Featured Program
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2 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Small Basic Program Gallery - Listed By Category
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3 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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5/18 UPDATE : Added the amazing 3D Color RayCaster Maze, 3D Maze, Small Basic Chomper, Snow Man Maze, NaochanPong, and Minesweeper (Games). On 3/9: Added Arrow (Graphical) and Metronome (Productivity Apps). On 3/1: Added Abacus (Productivity Apps). On...
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Small Basic Extension - Extended Small Basic Library (ESL) 0.4.1a
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3 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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 ,...
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Create a Visually Fun Clock - Small Basic Challenge
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3 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Drawing Butterflies and Hearts... USING ONLY CODE - Small Basic Featured Programs
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3 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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How to convert text into Binary
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3 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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. ...
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Text to Binary Converter - Small Basic Featured Program
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3 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Vigenère Cipher - Small Basic Featured Program
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3 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Small Basic: The Improved I/O Extension
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3 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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 /...
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Decimal to Binary Converter - Small Basic Featured Program
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3 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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...
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Soda Pop Showdown - Small Basic Featured Game
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4 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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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. ...
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Small Music Player - Small Basic Featured Program
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4 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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Today we're featuring Music Player ( info ) - by Amir CPS , NaochanON , and Absolu What started as this... Quickly evolved (thanks to Amir and Absolu)... Above Version - Update : FXJ606 Above Version - Import Code : BGV706 Import...
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Light Beam Physics Challenge - Small Basic
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4 months ago
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Ed Price - MSFT
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Make sure you check out LitDev's January challenges . Here's more info about his Physics Challenge: Light Beam! Physics Challenge Write a program to reflect a light beam off a rotated surface. Further challenge - make a game where the user...
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