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I wrote a program to draw a nine-point circle. The program ID is SJV079-0. A nine-point circle passes nine significant points defined by a triangle:
The midpoint of each side of the triangle
The foot of each altitude
The midpoint of t… Continue reading Nine-Point Circle – Small Basic Featured Program
Today we’re going to do a very simple Small Basic tutorial. We’re going to say hello to the moon!
Boot up Small Basic, and let’s get started!
Type this in:
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GraphicsWindow.TItle = “Hello Moon: The Program”
GraphicsWindow.Width = 320
GraphicsWindow.Height = 240
GraphicsWIndow.DrawImage(“C:\Small Basic\backgroundbmp”, 0, 0)
GraphicsWindow.BrushColor = “White”
GraphicsWindow.FontSize = 50
GraphicsWindow.DrawText(10, 120, “Hello Moon!”)
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Great. Except it will throw an error, because you don’t have the image! Here’s what you do…
1. Download this image (right-click and Save it):
2. Be sure to save it where you want it!
3. Then update the code to set the path in line 5 to the correct location of the background.bmp file on your computer!
4. Run it again!
But what if we want to make it even easier? What if the image is online, and we just want to point to where the image already is? Try this code (replace the location of your image with “http://aka.ms/HelloMoon”)…
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GraphicsWindow.TItle = “Hello Moon: The Program”
GraphicsWindow.Width = 320
GraphicsWindow.Height = 240
GraphicsWIndow.DrawImage(“http://aka.ms/HelloMoon“, 0, 0)
GraphicsWindow.BrushColor = “White”
GraphicsWindow.FontSize = 50
GraphicsWindow.DrawText(10, 120, “Hello Moon!”)
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That’s it! Hello Moon! Wasn’t that easy? Now, everyone can code!
You can find this tutorial and hundreds more in our exhaustive Small Basic book:
Have a Small and Basic day!
Ninja Ed
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Have you seen colorful flags on a ship? I wrote a program to draw International Code of Signals flags in Small Basic. The program ID is RQP548.
This program just shows all flags from A to Z. But let’s modify it to some q… Continue reading ICS in Small Basic – Small Basic Featured Program
State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition launches on March 13 on Windows 10 and Xbox. It’ll also be on Steam with cross-network play across all platforms. This is a free, automatic upgrade for all owners of State of Decay 2, including all Xbox Game Pass members. It’s an expanded and improved version that takes everything […]
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Healthcare Evangelist John Barto discusses the impact technology is having on the patient experience. Hear how health organizations are adopting technology to empower patients, unlock health silos and modernize the health experience today
 … Continue reading How technology is reshaping the patient experience
Update 2002 for the Technical Preview Branch of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager has been released.
Orchestration Groups are the evolution of the “Server Groups” feature. They were first introduced in the technical preview for Configurat… Continue reading Improvements to Orchestration Groups in Configuration Manager Technical Preview 2002
Every time you publish or consume events to/from Event Hubs for Kafka, your client is trying to access the Event Hubs resources. When using Apache Kafka protocol with your clients, you can set your configuration for authentication and encrypt… Continue reading Announcing the OAuth support with Event Hubs for Kafka – now GA
The 2nd cumulative update release for SQL Server 2019 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. To learn more about the release or servicing mo… Continue reading Cumulative Update #2 for SQL Server 2019 RTM
