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 ...

And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny shows off his vanity license plate in 1967Adrian N. Bouchard / Dartmouth College Invented by John G.

This was programming that achieved a neat midpoint between the mind of a human and that of the machine. This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...

Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language, which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner ...

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 ...