"Software was handcrafted stuff in ... in part because you often ended up adapting them for your computer’s version of Microsoft BASIC. The language had splintered into dialects as the companies ...

BASIC, a computer coding language designed by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas ... “Universities aren’t hampered by legacy code and software systems. We are training the next batch of programmers,” ...

The computer would run the code until ... But as a practical language? For making shippable software? BASIC wasn’t always great. Graphics, for example, ran glacially. I tried to craft a space ...

[Dan]’s homebrew computer has ... the physical world. For software, the microcontroller runs a version of BASIC called Tiny BASIC plus, which is a stripped-down language that can fit in 3 ...

There was a time, not even that long ago, when the lingua franca of the home computer ... BASIC. BASIC has its roots in academics, where it was intended to be an easy to use programming language ...

The programming language would provide the intellectual building blocks for later software ... tool in teaching computer programming. One student who later benefited from BASIC was Bill Gates ...

That changed 50 years ago today with the introduction of BASIC, a computer language that was created to be simple for anyone to use for making computer programs. TIME Magazine's web site has an ...

Fifty years ago this week, scientists at Dartmouth College ran the very first computer program written in a language called BASIC, which ushered in a new era of computing. NPR's Science ...

“We looked at languages and we both decided ... to keep up by producing a version of the software called “True Basic” that ...

The programming language would provide the intellectual building blocks for later software ... tool in teaching computer programming. One student who later benefited from BASIC was Bill Gates ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...