Happy New Year Message In Small Basic
Alfred Thompson
ways to recount. But we have, in a sense at least, a chance for a fresh start
with 2009. I wish my readers all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
But especially happy and healthy. I’ve been taking care of my father this
week as he recovers from surgery and complications and that really brings
home the idea that health is the most important of those three. And family is
pretty darn important as well. I hope your family is well as well.
One of the New Year’s greetings I received via Twitter included a link to a
cute little program written in Small Basic.
(http://bluewatersoft.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/01/post-ffce.html) This
program writes out Happy New Year using Turtle graphics in Small Basic. Most
of the post is written in Japanese but there is a caption that explains some
of how it was done in English. The sample code is there as well. This is code
the old fashioned way which I think is actually a very good thing. To me it
brings home some better understanding of how things really work. Plus it
opens the door for some real creativity. The fact that it ties in to getting
images from Flickr brings in the idea of mashups as well. Great opportunity
to talk about licenses, fair use and other related topics around intellectual
property as well.
Thanks http://twitter.com/biac for sharing this project with me via Twitter!
(BTW I’m on Twitter at http://twitter.com/alfredtwo and if you are on Twitter
lets connect.)
Oh there is a sample Tetris program in Small Basic you can learn more about
at
http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/12/30/tetris-for-small-basic.aspx
Kyle Fuchs
Happy New Year!
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