Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose ... into mainframe computers and write programs using the language. The impact of BASIC ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC ... use a computer." Nomen est omen: BASIC stands for Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Even 60 years later, the programming language ...

The two math professors deeply believed that computer literacy would be essential in the years to come, and designed the language–its name stood for “Beginner ... BASIC programs I was writing ...

This language ... for teaching programming techniques As computer technology continued to advance, the need for more complex programming languages surfaced. Academia and business moved away from BASIC ...

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.

Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science ... needed a simple programming language and set out to write one. The result was BASIC — short for Beginners’ All-purpose ...

Back in the early 1960s, programming for computers was a job that was just for computer scientists. That changed 50 years ago today with the introduction of BASIC, a computer language that was ...

But I’d just done so, thanks to this strangely accessible computer language: BASIC ... This let you write code that hopscotched around: If the program got to line 120, you could tell the ...