The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code—BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny ...

At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting ... mainframe computers and write programs using the language. The impact of BASIC began to extend far beyond Dartmouth's campus.

PALCA: It's actually a line of computer code and it was part of the first very short program ever run in a language called BASIC. INSKEEP: OK. Which is what we're going to talk about here ...

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 ...

Taking its cues from popular 1960s languages like FORTRAN and ... not only were most people who bought such a home computer already familiar with BASIC, it allows programs to be run without ...

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 ...

But I’d just done so, thanks to this strangely accessible computer language: BASIC. The next day I and my nerdy friends raided the library. We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for ...

Basic — an acronym for Beginner’s All ... developed by International Business Machines Corp., was the dominant language of ...

By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually ...

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 ...