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Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their ... a time-sharing system to open computer access to all at Dartmouth. The simplicity and power of BASIC quickly made it a favorite ...

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Anyone that has taken an introductory programming class will tell you that at the very least, it helped them understand basic programming ... of programming a computer at the coding level has ...

“In the very early days ... and is still a fundamental tool in teaching computer programming. One student who later benefited from BASIC was Bill Gates, who used a variation of it as the ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer ... programming manual that came with the Spectrum. The book was full of simple programs written in the accessible BASIC programming ...

Computers can do amazing things — from basic laptops capable ... makes modern life possible. But no computer can do anything until a computer programmer tells it to behave in specific ways. That’s ...