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.

But as a practical language? For making shippable software? BASIC wasn’t always ... you could tell the computer to suddenly GOTO line 25, for example. For a newbie coder, this was an easy ...

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 ...

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages as we see it today ... influential in sparking change within the industry. “One example of this is ...

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 ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program in a language of their ... mid-60s to the early 80s, BASIC was their introduction to computer programming.

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 ...

The pioneer of structured programming, Edsger Dijkstra, said in 1975, for example ... the retro computer scene Even though professional programmers hardly use BASIC today, the language is still ...

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 ...

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 ...