Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language ... generations of young computer programmers.

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 ...

the task relies heavily on a programming language. What you may not know about computer programming is that most historians recognize Ada Lovelace as the world’s first programmer. She wrote an ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first ... engage with computers in a fundamentally new way. The story of BASIC is not just about a programming language.

Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known ... and eventually propelled generations into the world of personal ...

We’d heard about computer programming ... world’s most popular languages (like JavaScript and Python) are now also interpreted on the fly. But BASIC was among the first.

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first ... programming language. Most of it went over my head, but as I experimented with the examples, I began to feel the thrill that people who fall for computer ...

Alan Kay, the famed computer scientist, says he didn’t really know what the term “computer science” meant in 1966, when he read a lengthy description of a programming language written by a ...

In his 31 years at ETH Zurich, Wirth developed new programming languages such as Euler, PL360, Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula 2, Oberon and LoLa. He also built Switzerland’s first personal computers ...

The professors knew that students needed a simple programming ... Because BASIC is the first language that many computer scientists learn, it has been, for generations, a mother tongue of ...