Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's ...

This was programming that achieved a neat midpoint between the mind of a human and that of the machine. This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history ...

A few non-Microsoft BASIC versions, such as QuickBASIC, also kept chugging along. However, other programming languages were beginning to push BASIC aside. Pascal, Java, and Python became the ...

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 ...

In fact, the idea underlying his best-known work, the now 60-year-old BASIC programming language, was to bring computing, which was still a rather elitist activity at the time, within everyone's ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...

BASIC, a programming language that first appeared on May 1, 1964, celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2024. With the grant, Kemeny and his team opened up their BASIC prototype to everyone at ...

For many coding students, HTML, CSS, Python, Java, JavaScript, C and Ruby are among the easiest programming languages to learn. When deciding which basic coding language to start with, consider ...

By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...