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New Small Basic Content Contest - TechNet Wiki

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Read the rules and info here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smallbasic/archive/2012/10/16/small-basic-new-technet-wiki-contest.aspx
Here are the basics...
I'm going to be holding a contest for the best Small Basic articles on TechNet Wiki. The first contest will be held from now until 10/26/12.
There will be two winners...
- Best Article
- I will be a judge along with at least two guest judges from Microsoft
- Anybody can compete (including Microsoft employees, although the judges won't consider our own articles)
- We'll be looking for articles that are thorough, visually clear (images might help, but aren't necessary), and well written.
- Prizes include an interview post on the Small Basic Blog, and a feature post on the blog of your article. You'll also be announced in the forums as well.
- Best Contributor
- This is for the overall person who has contributed the most (other than the winner of Best Article).
- Same judges (me and at least two Microsoft guest judges).
- We'll be taking into account overall number of edits/contributions, quality of additional material added to articles started by others, translations, etc.
- This is to acknowledge other important contributions to Small Basic content on TechNet Wiki... spelling corrections, grammar corrections, space formatting, adding tags, adding images, adding sections/scenarios, adding links to other Wiki articles, translating articles into other languages, updating information with current links/product names/details, and more!
- Prize is a blog post on the Small Basic blog that features them and their accomplishments. You'll also be announced in the forums as well.
Read the blog post for the rest: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smallbasic/archive/2012/10/16/small-basic-new-technet-wiki-contest.aspx
Noah, Nonki, and I got us started. You can reply here or comment on the blog if you have questions.
Thanks!
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)
- Edited by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Wednesday, October 17, 2012 5:55 AM
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:11 PM - Best Article
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Awesome contest! Here's my first article: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14015.using-the-joysticks-game-controllers-extension-for-microsoft-small-basic.aspx.Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:42 PMAnswerer
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Nice idea!
But something wrong in TechNet Wiki? After push [Save] button of an article, sometimes it is not saved and profile screen comes up.
Nonki Takahashi
- Edited by Nonki Takahashi Wednesday, October 17, 2012 7:37 AM
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:48 PM -
Awesome contest! Here's my first article: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14015.using-the-joysticks-game-controllers-extension-for-microsoft-small-basic.aspx.
Great contribution, Gungan! I added more tags.
Thanks!
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 6:06 AM -
I've created an extensions tutorial that is more in-depth that Noah's, and uses C# instead of VB.NET.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 2:40 PM -
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I cleaned up/added some order to Gungan's article.
Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:43 AM -
Thanks Liam --- looks much better! I have never written a wiki page before, as evidenced by the original version =)
I have uploaded the code to the MSDN Code Gallery, so please check it out at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Small-Basic-Joysticks-1ad2329a!
Please mark any answers and "vote as helpful" any posts that help you!
- Edited by gungan37Editor Friday, October 19, 2012 12:14 AM Removed the exclamtion point from the hyperlink
Friday, October 19, 2012 12:12 AMAnswerer -
Very cool, Gungan. Thanks!
I added a few Wiki articles, but obviously these don't count for the contest:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14070.small-basic-list-of-extensions.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14071.small-basic-the-14-keywords.aspx
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)
Saturday, October 20, 2012 5:48 AM -
This goes in the opposite direction of the other articles, but I gets to the point and motivation behind SmallBasic.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14084.getting-johnny-to-code.aspx
An article on the importance of setting goals as a motivating force to get beginners past the initial frustration of learning to program.
Saturday, October 20, 2012 9:07 PMAnswerer -
This goes in the opposite direction of the other articles, but I gets to the point and motivation behind SmallBasic.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14084.getting-johnny-to-code.aspx
An article on the importance of setting goals as a motivating force to get beginners past the initial frustration of learning to program.
Great! I changed the title so that someone could find it like searching in a content Library (the wiki has some guidelines for that), but I kept your title at the top of the article. Great article; your experience really helps make your points!Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:41 AM -
This goes in the opposite direction of the other articles, but I gets to the point and motivation behind SmallBasic.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14084.getting-johnny-to-code.aspx
An article on the importance of setting goals as a motivating force to get beginners past the initial frustration of learning to program.
Also, your content works well for a blog. Do you want me to blog it for you as a guest blogger?
Thanks!
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:42 AM -
Yes, please. I would be honored to be a guest blogger. :-)
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 2:06 PMAnswerer -
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 5:51 PM
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See Nonki's new article, "How to Debug" here: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../14121.small-basic-how-to-debug.aspx
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)
Thursday, October 25, 2012 5:41 PM -
This content contest is coming to a close.
Here are our contestants for the "Best Article":
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13342.small-basic.aspx - Noah
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14121.small-basic-how-to-debug.aspx - Nonki
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14084.small-basic-how-to-get-kids-to-try-programming.aspx - Coding Cat
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14075.small-basic-control-statements.aspx - Nonki
Here are our contestants for Best Contributor:
- 2 Japanese translations: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13871.small-basic-ja-jp.aspx, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13867.small-basic-vb-net-ja-jp.aspx
- 63 contributions on TechNet Wiki Small Basic articles in the last 9 days!
- 69 total article edits
- 8 contributions on TechNet Wiki Small Basic articles in the last 2 days
- 18 total article edits
- 1 Italian translation: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14078.small-basic-it-it.aspx
- 3 total article edits (on Small Basic articles) in the last 6 days
Thanks everyone! I'll post the results on the blog!
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)
Friday, October 26, 2012 6:01 PM -
I just published a tool for Small Basic code block in TechNet Wiki. There is not Small Basic in language list box of Code block format in TechNet Wiki. So I wrote it as Small Basic progarm.
Program ID is SKC235-1.
Nonki Takahashi
Sunday, October 28, 2012 12:22 PM -
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OK, I'll try to write Wiki article about this tool.
Nonki Takahashi
Monday, October 29, 2012 8:42 AM -
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:48 AM
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Our winners are announced here... Liam and Nonki... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smallbasic/archive/2012/11/02/small-basic-contest-winners-technet-wiki-content.aspx
Thank you to everyone who submitted articles! After rewarding the prizes (various blog posts) to the winners, we will continue to acknowledge Small Basic contributions on TechNet Wiki.
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Twitter, Wiki)
- Edited by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Saturday, November 3, 2012 6:21 AM
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