the need for more complex programming languages surfaced. Academia and business moved away from BASIC and Pascal to languages like C and C++, which were developed by those in the tech industry. But ...

Programming them required deep mathematical ... While more powerful languages like FORTRAN, C, and Java eventually overtook BASIC in the professional world, it remained a teaching tool well ...

This flexibility made Basic a poor language for real programming, as Edsger Dijkstra ... moved on to languages such as Pascal or C, or Perl or PHP, and then perhaps Java.

Yossi Matias compared coding to math and said learning "basic disciplines" is "as important as ever." He also said people should remember AI isn't just in chatbots — and it's going to transform ...

The goal is to expose all kindergarten to Grade 12 students to coding basics within the next decade ... with digital skills that are needed by B.C. tech firms in the government’s bid to bolster ...

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 ...