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 ...

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

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Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science ... The result was BASIC — short for Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — which they first put to the test ...

Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer ... BASIC (the name was an acronym for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code).

(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.