Academia and business moved away from BASIC and Pascal to languages like C ... programming is no longer commonplace at a lot of universities, Hicks points out that colleges are still quite influential ...

“Basic C programming,” is an online Wikibooks resource. It is a good step up from another Wikibooks resource: “A little C primer.” It is a complete online text book that takes comprehensive look at ...

C and C++. Critics criticized the often confusing BASIC code. The pioneer of structured programming, Edsger Dijkstra, said in 1975, for example, that it was almost impossible to teach good ...

“You gotta try this,” he told me, and handed over a piece of paper on which he’d handwritten a program ... software? BASIC wasn’t always great. Graphics, for example, ran glacially.

That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ...