If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games.

Either programming a computer was exceptionally hard and ... In 1985 they published a book, Back to BASIC, which bemoaned the crudeness and inconsistency of Microsoft BASIC and other variants ...

What you should consider: This book only provides basic information about programming and is not recommended for more experienced coders. What you need to know: This AP Computer Science A test ...

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated ... Probably nobody waits by the mailbox for a magazine or book full of code to arrive. Instead, BASIC lives on in the ...

We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making versions of checkers, Battleship, and the like. It was our Necronomicon. We’d heard about computer programming, of course, but never ...

This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer ... came with the Spectrum. The book was full of simple programs written in the accessible BASIC programming language.

Learning basic ideas about algorithms and data representation without the distraction of a computer can be a very powerful thing. A lot of us learned on computers that existed only in a book or on ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All ... they were difficult to use. At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...

The first section of the guide covers the basics of quantum computer programming, explaining qubits and qubit systems, fundamental quantum concepts of superposition and entanglement and quantum ...