Let's take two of our favorite teach, and just all around fun, tools, Lego Mindstorm EV3 and Small Basic and combine them into one awesome project!
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Using the EV3 extension for Small Basic 1.2, you can use Small Basic to program your Lego Mindstorm...
With summer coming to an end it's not too early to start queuing up projects for the kids, young and old, for Thanksgiving and Winter break. :)
Phillip Trelford recently released a cool new library that is meant to help speed and simplify creating graphic apps and games. a library that is just...
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June is the quite before the storm month. With Windows 10 and related items coming out next month, well July and August are going to be exciting months!
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I cheating a little... Yesterday I highlighting this project in the Kinect Gallery, but since this news ties in so well with last week's blog post, I'm going to highlight here too. And can you really have enough Small Basic and Kinect news? :)
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It's not often we get a new development environment that gets Kinect Dev support, so when we do, and when it's focused on getting to coding quickly, well we have to highlight it!
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My name is Greg and I learned programing using Basic and you know what, I'm damn proud of it! :)
Seems like Basic has always been a favorite whipping boy, yet in my mind, if it helps one person see beyond the keyboard and screen, to help them see that they are not application captives, that...
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Microsoft Small Basic 1.1 is upgraded to .NET Framework 4.5 to enable new objects and features. It also fixes the Flickr object bug. It doesn't work on Windows XP or earlier operating systems. Small Basic is the only text-based programming language designed to teach kids and adults how to...
With the summer upon us for our Monday posts, I think we're going to less Visual Studio extension stuff and more game stuff and/or "oh my god, my kids are making me crazy, give me something that will keep them busy!" stuff.
To kick this off, we're revisiting Small Basic. We've mentioned it...
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MS SmallBasic might be great, if they only add some more commands to it. Now it is just misses some of the most important tools for for example string handling.
Basic is great language, when you want to make something simple fast.
I have allways wondered, why MS didn't make Basic the command...
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