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2013
Draw a face in the TextWindow, Consider using colours (TextWIndow.ForegroundColor and TextWindow.BackgroundColor), suitable characters (Text.GetCharacter), and careful positioning (TextWindow.CursorLeft and TextWindow.CursorRight)
Reverse the characters in a text string
Change the first letter of each word in a string to a capital letter
Validate a password has at least 6 characters, has upper and lower case letters and at least one number
(Easier) Write a program to read the day, month and year from a user and write it out to the TextWindow, formatted in nice colours.
(Harder) Write an email verification program
Show a simple graph for a simple function (with value table) in TW with eg. '*' or '.'
Write a simple Month Calendar in TW
Write a program to read some text and replace all capital letters with a * character
Write a program to convert currencies, graphical or text based
Write a simple binary number converter between decimal and binary numbers (both ways)
Write a simple code that takes an input and converts it to a code (numbers or text)
Write a program to calculate the sum of all whole numbers between 2 user input values
Write a program where the user enters 5 numbers and you calculate the sum (all added), product (all multiplied) and average
Write a program that asks the user for 2 numbers and what calculation to perform (+, -, / or *), then uses a different subroutine to do the required calculation
Write a program that loops through the first 100 numbers, 1, 2, 3 ... 99, 100. It then Writes out to the TextWindow every number that is a multiple of 3 or 7
Write a program that gets some text input by the user and loops through each character and counts the number of vowels a, e, i, o or u
Write a program that finds all the numbers less than 1000 that contain only digits that sum to 10, e.g. 55, 73, 136, but not 423. How many are there?
Write a program to calculate the sum of all square numbers less than 1000
Write a program to validate date input
Write a program to ask the user for their age and date of birth. Confirm that they are telling the truth or not
Write a program to convert a user input text to a set of musical notes using the Sound.PlayMusic method
Positions the TextWindow in the middle of the screen.Set the Pen colour to red and background colour to yellow.Asks for a number and then some text.Displays the input number (Cyan, column 10) and text (Green, column 30) in different colours on the same line at different column positions.
Calculate the sum of all digits in a number. If this has more than 1 digit, then sum these until you have a single number
Calculate the square root of a number without using the Math methods (SquareRoot or Power)
Create a random password generator
Make a program to organize an array alphabetically
Write a program to calculate the average of 10 random numbers (in the range 1 to 100)
Write a program that searches all Small Basic programs in a directory to find all files (and the line numbers) containing a user input text
Convert a number in decimal form to the equivalent mixed number with the fraction portion reduced to lowest terms
2012
Write a program to format a list of words so they are displayed in 5 vertical columns, with each column having the same indentation
Write a program to reverse all the words in a sentence, For example "this is my sentence" would be "sentence my is this"
Get the user to input a sentence and count how many times each letter in the alphabet is used
Find the most common letter; often it is ‘e’
Write a TextWindow program to welcome a user and ask for their name
Find all the numbers less than 1000, where the sum of the digits is 15, for example 96 or 177. How many are there?
Write a program to get the user to enter a number and write it out in words, for example 123 is one hundred and twenty three
Find all the numbers palindromic numbers less than 1000, eg. 1 131, 424 etc (the same forwards as backwards)
Find all the 2 digit numbers that when the digits are reversed and the smaller number subtracted from the larger, the result is 36, for example 15 and 51
Detect any numbers in an input text.
Enter a number and detect if it is odd or even
Calculate the sum of all integer numbers under 1000 that contain a 3
Write the times tables (1 to 12)
Convert an input decimal number to a binary number
Measure your type speed with unit words/sec
Make a list of subroutine names from given Small Basic source file
Make an indent program which coordinates indentation of given Small Basic source file
Write a program to count up nouns in a sentence of text from a user
Write a program to read in and spell-check a sentence of text from a user
Use the stack to reverse a list of numbers entered by a user
Use a While loop to find the first triangular number with 4 digits
Write a units conversion program to convert between m, cm, mm, inches, feet, and yards; either graphical or text based
Work out the probability of getting 4 of a kind (any suit) in a five card hand of poker on the first round (before any card changes)
Write a number guessing game.The program selects a random number between 1 and 100 and asks the player to guess it
Ask the user to input some characters and the program outputs them in alphabetical order
Write a program that converts centimetres into inches and inches into centimetres
Create a program that generates 40 random numbers between 01 and 99 (inclusive
Write a program to write out the current date and time in this format
Write a program to read an entire text file into a SmallBasic variable
A company manufactures two types of tiles
