That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ...

Gone were commands like “EBCDIC ARRAY E [0:11],” replaced by a simple “HELLO” to begin programming and a delightful “READY” prompt that showed the computer was listening. BASIC was ...

This type of ad hoc programming was the design goal of Dartmouth Basic (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), and its greatest success. Professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz created ...

We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making versions of checkers, Battleship, and the like. It was our Necronomicon. We’d heard about computer programming, of course, but never ...

which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner in mind: more specifically, kids who want to learn programming (though ...