Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran ...

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny ...

With many previous languages, you wrote the code, but before you could ... professional developers will admit to using BASIC. Me, when I started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year ...

BASIC, a computer coding language designed by John George Kemeny and ... “So, while people still do learn to program on their own, I think today programming is largely taught at universities.” Many ...

However, other programming languages were beginning to push BASIC ... I can't see anyone ever writing any stand-alone significant program in BASIC again. And, the very idea of someone writing ...

And, of course, it was at this time that "10 GOTO 10", the one-line BASIC program that threw the C64 into an infinite loop, became the joke of a generation. The programming language also found its ...

Consequently, today’s desktop computers have no built-in general-purpose programming language to entice the ... and Small Basic code can be ported to Visual Basic. Racket. Based on a predecessor ...

BASIC was interactive. You knew right away,” said Charles C. Palmer, a senior lecturer in the computer science program at Dartmouth. “It was a turning point.” The programming language would ...

Bill Gates celebrated Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary by sharing the source code that created the ... contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS ...