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 ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code—BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting ... mainframe computers and write programs using the language. The impact of BASIC began to extend far beyond Dartmouth's campus.

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages as we see it today, it helped set the precedent of universities as leaders in computer science ...

A regular column about programming. Because if/when the ... But I’d just done so, thanks to this strangely accessible computer language: BASIC. The next day I and my nerdy friends raided the ...

Before BASIC, engaging with a computer meant wrestling with cumbersome ... also kept chugging along. However, other programming languages were beginning to push BASIC aside.

By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually ...

Back in the early 1960s, programming for computers was a job that was just for computer scientists. That changed 50 years ago today with the introduction of BASIC, a computer language that was ...

In an increasingly digitized and connected environment, the demand for computer programmers continues to grow and so does the ...

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 ...

Basic — an acronym for Beginner’s ... developed by International Business Machines Corp., was the dominant language of ...