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The Official Blog of Microsoft Small Basic

Yeah, for reals. It's moving! So… as MSDN closes, the Tech Community is opening and thriving! Join...

Date: 02/20/2019

Please kick the tires of our new Public Preview of Small Basic Online 1.0! What's up on our website...

Date: 02/08/2019

I'm continuing to develop Morse Telegraph Key.  And Tryhest shared his Morse code player as his...

Date: 01/25/2019

There are some Morse code program in Small Basic.  But today I'd like to start creating new Morse...

Date: 01/19/2019

These challenges are intended for people who are learning to program for the first time or for those...

Date: 01/12/2019

What is the TechNet Guru Competition? Each month the TechNet Wiki council organizes a contest of the...

Date: 01/10/2019

Small Basic Shapes has only four types of shapes - rectangle, ellipse, triangle and line. To draw...

Date: 01/05/2019

These challenges from LitDev are intended for people who are learning to program for the first time...

Date: 12/21/2018

What is TechNet Guru Competition? Each month the TechNet Wiki council organizes a contest of the...

Date: 12/20/2018

Today I'd like to introduce a new 3D game EXFS - Exospheric Feight Service programmed by cvmarus....

Date: 11/09/2018

What is the TechNet Guru Competition? Each month the TechNet Wiki council organizes a contest of the...

Date: 11/07/2018

Special thanks to litdev for hosting these challenges! These challenges are intended for people who...

Date: 11/05/2018

Today is the 10th anniversary of Small Basic.  Congratulations!!! I wrote a program SFF730-5 for the...

Date: 10/23/2018

Who will be announced as the next Small Basic Guru? Read more about October 2018 competition!! What...

Date: 10/19/2018

These are the October 2018 challenges from Roshan Kumar Priya. We're also continuing the September...

Date: 10/18/2018

UPDATED: 10/18/18 Our progress continues! This is our next release on the Small Basic Website. See...

Date: 09/23/2018

Over in the September Challenges:...

Date: 09/15/2018

These challenges are intended for people who are learning to program for the first time or for those...

Date: 09/12/2018

What is the TechNet Guru Competition? Each month the TechNet Wiki council organizes a contest of the...

Date: 09/11/2018

Hello! Head to the new Small Basic Website 2.0: https://www.SmallBasic.com  In the upper right...

Date: 08/28/2018

This month's Small Basic code challenges come from Roshan Kumar Priya. These are his challenges for...

Date: 08/27/2018

This is the last week for the August 2018 Small Basic Guru competition! Check it out! What is...

Date: 08/26/2018

We're pleased as punch (punch that particularly pleased) to announce our new Small Basic website:...

Date: 07/26/2018

What is the TechNet Guru Competition? Each month the TechNet Wiki council organizes a contest of the...

Date: 07/22/2018

We answered this a few times in forums and blog comments, but we've given more and less information,...

Date: 07/20/2018

There are many keyboard shortcuts for TextWindow.Read() operation.  Most of these shortcut keys are...

Date: 07/18/2018

Today I'd like to introduce Simakov Misha's game "Click the button". The program ID is DSX769. This...

Date: 07/12/2018

Today's featured program is "Match colours or symbols" written by Glenn Broadway. Glenn wanted to...

Date: 06/08/2018

Today I'd like to introduce a table to understand how to convert between decimal and binary....

Date: 06/01/2018

Today I'd like to introduce a program written by ErmiteUrbain. ErmiteUrbain wrote a program to help...

Date: 05/11/2018

Introduction Gungan37 created a great extended Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Small...

Date: 04/27/2018

I made a game how accurate circle to draw with mouse.  The program ID is FGM527. Usage: Draw a...

Date: 04/22/2018

Thanks to NaochanON for writing this blog and Tryhest for contributing updates.  More details on...

Date: 04/11/2018

What is TechNet Guru Competition? Each month the TechNet Wiki council organizes a contest of the...

Date: 04/07/2018

Big thanks to LitDev for hosting our monthly challenges! These challenges are intended for people...

Date: 04/06/2018

I wrote a program which simulates traffic jam.  The idea is from Dr. Nishinari's mathematical...

Date: 04/01/2018

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a rich text format used in the internet.  You can see the...

Date: 02/16/2018

I updated an TechNet Wiki article which contains Small Basic Dictionary object reference. To update...

Date: 01/30/2018

I wrote a program to draw faces with animation.  The program ID is TDL115. Let's modify this program...

Date: 01/25/2018

I sometimes upload my program screen shots with Flickr pictures.  At that time, I always check the...

Date: 01/12/2018

Hi everyone. I wrote two programs to compose music (?). The first one shows the MML.  The program ID...

Date: 12/21/2017

I made two programs that have slide show effects written in Small Basic. One is just slide. The...

Date: 12/15/2017

Today I'd like to introduce GUI Designer which is created by Roshan Kumar Priya who is a 7th grade...

Date: 12/08/2017

Hi everyone.  It's time to write a new year greeting program in Small Basic. This is my first trial...

Date: 11/30/2017

Let's draw a picture of Halloween with Small Basic.  Happy Halloween! This program ID is TGR736.

Date: 10/29/2017

Today is the special day for Microsoft Small Basic. Happy Birthday Small Basic!! This program ID...

Date: 10/23/2017

Big thanks to LitDev for continuing to host these monthly challenges! And to all the community for...

Date: 10/10/2017

What is TechNet Guru Competition? Each month the TechNet Wiki council organizes a contest of the...

Date: 10/09/2017

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