A regular column about programming. Because if/when the machines take over, we should at least speak their language ... Statement Considered Harmful.” Anyone who learned to program on BASIC ...

Before Java, Python, and other programming languages, there was the BASIC programming language. It is important to note that programming languages existed before computers were developed. It was a way ...

Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's ...

The switch statement is essential and common in programming languages such as c++, Visual Basic, Java, Ada and many more. This is a feature you need to be conversant with as a programmer more so if ...

For starters, the first basic syntax to be documented in these programming languages will be how to write a "Hello, World" program which is the typical way of introducing any programming language to ...

A few non-Microsoft BASIC versions, such as QuickBASIC, also kept chugging along. However, other programming languages were beginning to push BASIC aside. Pascal, Java, and Python became the ...

He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s ... and no doubt mention will be made of the GOTO statement and how it makes larger projects very difficult to write.

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same.