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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

That language was BASIC and that system was the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (DTSS). Others, like yours truly, would enter computer science in the 70s by way of Unix, another time-sharing ...

marking over half a century since this pioneering programming language brought computer abilities to the non-technically trained masses. It's hard to overstate how revolutionary BASIC was in the ...

The BASIC language may be considered old-hat here in 2025, and the days when a computer came as a matter of course with a BASIC interpreter are far behind us, but it can still provide many hours ...

BBC Basic is still a fairly remarkable language, all these years later ... the ARM-reduced instruction set computer (RISC). ARM is, as you may know, a rather important bit of tech in the modern ...

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 ...

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 ...