MS SmallBasic? Did you know? Silverlight plugin required
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Check out this interesting sample from Microsoft's Official SmallBasic site. http://smallbasic.com/program/?PMT149[^] If you have silverlight turned on you'll see an interesting sample of bouncing balls with collision physics. I hadn't heard about this before. Interesting and a bit confusing. MS goes in so many different directions.
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Check out this interesting sample from Microsoft's Official SmallBasic site. http://smallbasic.com/program/?PMT149[^] If you have silverlight turned on you'll see an interesting sample of bouncing balls with collision physics. I hadn't heard about this before. Interesting and a bit confusing. MS goes in so many different directions.
newton.saber wrote:
Interesting and a bit confusing. MS goes in so many different directions.
What do you mean exactly? As I understand it SmallBasic is a programming language that Microsoft created to help young people learn to program. This sample you pointed to requires SilverLight so the code can be shown to function within the web. I guess I don't see a problem.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Check out this interesting sample from Microsoft's Official SmallBasic site. http://smallbasic.com/program/?PMT149[^] If you have silverlight turned on you'll see an interesting sample of bouncing balls with collision physics. I hadn't heard about this before. Interesting and a bit confusing. MS goes in so many different directions.
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Check out this interesting sample from Microsoft's Official SmallBasic site. http://smallbasic.com/program/?PMT149[^] If you have silverlight turned on you'll see an interesting sample of bouncing balls with collision physics. I hadn't heard about this before. Interesting and a bit confusing. MS goes in so many different directions.
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newton.saber wrote:
Interesting and a bit confusing. MS goes in so many different directions.
What do you mean exactly? As I understand it SmallBasic is a programming language that Microsoft created to help young people learn to program. This sample you pointed to requires SilverLight so the code can be shown to function within the web. I guess I don't see a problem.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Oh, I just meant that MS seems to want to do everything. I guess this is just a learning language. Reminds me of QuickBasic I started out with back in 1992. Just didn't know it was still around.
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Oh, I just meant that MS seems to want to do everything. I guess this is just a learning language. Reminds me of QuickBasic I started out with back in 1992. Just didn't know it was still around.
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One of my sons worked with it for a little bit to see if he would be interested in coding. So far, he's not. :(
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Sorry to hear that he's not interested. I have one son interested and another who is not. The one who is not interested was affected heavily by University profs who are so inept they made classes terrible. Instead of explaining, they just say, "you type this code to do this". student: "What does that do?" prof: "That's just what you type, I don't know." Ugh!
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Check out this interesting sample from Microsoft's Official SmallBasic site. http://smallbasic.com/program/?PMT149[^] If you have silverlight turned on you'll see an interesting sample of bouncing balls with collision physics. I hadn't heard about this before. Interesting and a bit confusing. MS goes in so many different directions.
Funnily, its labelled "realistic collision physics, but disobeys the law of conservation of momentum - the amount of energy in the system actually goes up sometimes!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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Funnily, its labelled "realistic collision physics, but disobeys the law of conservation of momentum - the amount of energy in the system actually goes up sometimes!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
Eventually they invented the perpetuum mobile. It works in their code already.