Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer ... offered this example of a program that ...

BASIC proved this at scale. But as a practical language? For making shippable ... you could tell the computer to suddenly GOTO line 25, for example. For a newbie coder, this was an easy way ...

BASIC, a computer coding language designed by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas ... are still quite influential in sparking change within the industry. “One example of this is automatic memory ...

That changed 50 years ago today with the introduction of BASIC, a computer language that was created to be simple for anyone to use for making computer programs. TIME Magazine's web site has an ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC ... languages come in. In the same year, Kemeny applied for a National Science Foundation grant to bring a GE-225 ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code—BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

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 ...

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 ...