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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I got a home computer with word-processing software for schoolwork, which came with the BASIC programming language. I wrote my first piece of code when I was seven.

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 ...