The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

Full disclosure: I did not own a personal computer until well into grad school, and at most used one on occasion in college to type up a few papers. It's true I availed my childhood self as much ...

BASIC wasn’t designed to change the world. “We were thinking only of Dartmouth,” says Kurtz, its surviving co-creator. (Kemeny died in 1992.) “We needed a language that could be ‘taught ...

Apple has brought its Swift Playground app to Mac to help you learn to code in Swift. The company originally launched the app on iPad in 2016 with an aim to encourage kids learn programming.

The first Apple II, an 8-bit home computer and one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, went on sale on June 5, 1977, after being introduced by Steve Jobs and Steve ...

The Apple II was a bona-fide commercially produced computer you could buy in a store. If you want to know what ‘launched apple as a company’ you have to look past hardware. It was VisiCalc.

The BASIC programming language is 50 years old this month. As you may know, BASIC was created in 1964 by Dartmouth College professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz as a system to simplify the teaching ...

In my college years my higher level programming languages were of the scientific mold, FORTRAN, PL-1, Algol. Of course I programmed a lot in many assembly languages too, in college and on my own.

Apple has long sought a place in computer science education. Programming in the Logo language in the 1980s using an the Apple II computer is one notable chapter in the history of computing.