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

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 ...

The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer ... BASIC. Me, when I started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer languages ...

Computers can do amazing things — from basic laptops capable ... to know at least two or three programming languages, including proficiency in JAVA and C++.” Beyond classroom and experiential learning ...

If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games.

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...