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 ...

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP ... directly to online storage or photo-sharing social sites. The program supports basic printing and uses the operating system dialogs to change settings.

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program in a language of their own devising: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC). It wasn't the ...

Computer coding ability has gotten especially hip recently. People who can’t code revere it as 21st century sorcery, while those who do it professionally are often driven to fits by it.

Image Dr. Kurtz ... and is still a fundamental tool in teaching computer programming. One student who later benefited from BASIC was Bill Gates, who used a variation of it as the foundation ...

Fuze has created its own programming language, Fuze BASIC, a riff on the classic BASIC ... while the code visible on the image up above appears to be a text-based adventure where you eat apples ...

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 ...