Computer programming may seem like magic ... These logical comparisons are key to the basic functions an algorithm contains. This flowchart may seem simple enough, but when programmers start ...

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 ...

which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner in mind: more specifically, kids who want to learn programming (though ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...