This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

Easy-to-use programming language that drove Apple, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964. ... I learned computer programming writing Basic on an Atari 400.

For me, it was my fourth programming language, after BASIC, PDP-8 assembly language, and PDP-8 binary (yes, I wrote binary code so I could toggle it in on the front panel of an early minicomputer).

Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it ...

After a year in the making, and with very little fanfare, Microsoft last month launched Small Basic, a free programming language aimed at kids. Unlike Scratch and Alice, tools designed for kids to ...

BASIC lived up to its name and was fairly straightforward, making it much easier to program than writing in assembler language or punch cards. It would start on minicomputers like the DEC PDP line.

In my college years my higher level programming languages were of the scientific mold, FORTRAN, PL-1, Algol. Of course I programmed a lot in many assembly languages too, in college and on my own.

Applesoft BASIC on a II+ was my first programming language. My first actually useful program was written there. In fourth grade, for a while we had homework to write out multiplication tables all ...