Recipes for Small Basic

These are the recipes we have been developing to teach & introduce programming. We hope you’ll try them out, and let us know how they’ve worked for you. We are constantly developing, so expect more to show up from week to week. For all of our courseware design we use the ‘INTENTIONAL METHOD’ of teaching. This is an experience-first, hands-on way of teaching. For more about this method, check out this short video.

You will need to use Microsoft SmallBasic (free), plus our extensions to SmallBasic to have all of the objects. most especially the Tortoise(!) and operations that we use in our recipes. To use the recipes, click on the ”’import”’ button in SmallBasic and enter the 6-Digit recipe ID to get the recipe into your editor. Then translate each line of English comments in the recipe into a line of code. In the end, you will have a program that produces the result shown in the recipe image. Of course, you don’t have to wait till your done to run it. We encourage you to run it often, as soon as you think it will show something.

Recipes have been translated into other languages – Dutch, German, Spanish (coming soon).

Recipe Name, Image & ID	Concepts & Cheat Sheet	Variation Images & Information	Quiz, Homework & Xtras
Simple Square — SQUARE	IntroductionToTurtle Colors ForLoops Variables Cheat Sheet – SND126	Variation Grid here	Quiz – FFC797 Homework – SXG499-1 Spiral – VTM183 Cheat Sheet – LHR719
Houses – GGQ678	IntroductionToTurtle Colors Variables Subroutines Cheat Sheet – NHP985	Variation Grid – roof type, house color, grass color Variation Cheat Sheet – GMN498	Quiz NFN086 Homework : TRB506 4SQUARE – 4Square Cheat Sheet – CZJ500
DigiGirlz Flower – DigiFlower	IntroductionToTurtle Colors ForLoops Subroutines ColorWheel EmbeddedForLoops ProgramWindow Variables Cheat Sheet – VVS965	Change size, colors, line length, angles, background color	Triangle Shell – MGF108 Cheat Sheet – ZBB149
Spider Web – PTR695	IntroductionToTurtle Colors Variables Subroutines Cheat Sheet – VQJ995	Change size, colors, line length, angles, background color	Knotted Ring – KnotRing Cheat Sheet – VQJ995
Pentagon Crazy – KHW075	Variables Subroutines IfThenElse Cheat Sheet – VRD858	Watermark – WaterMark	Quiz – LJB034 Cheat Sheet – WPB966
High-Low Game – HiLow	IfThenElse MessageBox Cheat Sheet – RGK644	Add additional validation around user input	Quiz – ZLS593
Turtle Tree – QVF598-0	IntroductionToTurtle GraphicsWindow Properties ForLoops Variables Subroutines Cheat Sheet – DPD960	Vary shape, size of tree	Quiz – JMB996
Connect the Dots – Dots	Events ShapeMaker Cheat Sheet – QWB852	Intervals	None
Simple Bubble – BWX579	Events ShapeMaker Arrays (in the variation) Cheat Sheet – LDH867	Variation (teacher recipe at Bubbles-0, Cheat Sheet - TFC068	Quiz – JDS972-0
Tic Tac Toe Player – ZNV196	Events Exceptions Cheat Sheet – VTC563	Make new types of players	None
Ad Libs – QWF808	String Concatenation MessageBox Model_view_Controller (in the variations) Cheat Sheet – NXK897	Variation One – ZTM891 Variation Two – DZS841-0	None
Holiday Card – CWV381	IntroductionToTurtle Colors ForLoops Variables Events Cheat Sheet – LNH851	Change size, number of trees	None
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DEMO recipe (Giant Tortoise) - ZWQ663	IntroductionToTurtle Cheat Sheet – BMJ091		Quiz – PDW305
if you have any ideas for a recipe, let us know	did you use the Cheat Sheet?	email us with your variation ID, we love to see what you did	we are writing more quizzes, watch for updates

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