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 ... or book full of code ...

You might assume that a programming language whose primary purpose ... “We all know the result: books with titles like BASIC for the XYZ Computer. Ad nauseum.” As someone who grew up on ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC ... languages come in. In the same year, Kemeny applied for a National Science Foundation grant to bring a GE-225 ...

To a programmer, code can seem a “domain of sorcery” in which strings of characters have power in the real world.

A regular column about programming ... 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 making ...

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages as we see it today, it helped set the precedent of universities as leaders in computer science ...