BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964.

BASIC or Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code is a high-level programming language designed to provide easy access to computer facilities. Its developers John George Kemeny, the Dartmouth ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

BASIC, a computer coding language designed by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas in 1963, was initially invented to more easily teach programming to undergraduates, reports ThoughtCo. “BASIC was ...

Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, ... Add a description, image, and links to the basic-programming-language topic page so ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually propelled generations ...

Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it ...

"Many variants of the programming language appeared in the '70s and '80s, and BASIC became a standard that was essential to know in order to use a computer. In fact, BASIC became the basis for ...

Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, ... Add a description, image, and links to the basic-programming-language topic page so ...

The programming language also found its way into the business world: rudimentary database management programs and other important user applications were also being written in BASIC. As an example of ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, co-pioneer of the BASIC programming language, dies at 96. In the 1960s, he and John Kemeny developed BASIC and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, transforming computer access and ...