(Bloomberg) -- Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic ...

Read an excerpt below about how, in eighth grade, he discovered BASIC, which introduced him to the elegance and exacting demands of computer code; and don't miss Lee Cowan's interview with Bill ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ... At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting ...

(The name was an acronym for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.) It was a high ... if you did something, the computer would just look back at you. BASIC was interactive.